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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:37:08 +0200
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On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:51 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> The only sysfs attributes that were always available that I could find
> were module parameters.  A little odd because we can specify them on
> the kernel command line, or when loading the module in addition to
> being available at run time. =20
>=20
> It gives me a general interface that is usable so long as the module
> is loaded, and does not depend on the availability of any specific
> network device.  I will happily use any other interface that gives
> me the same level of functionality for the roughly the same level
> of effort.

Just for consideration, in wireless we currently create virtual network
devices by having a "add_iface" and "remove_iface" sysfs files below the
ieee80211 class.

johannes

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