From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:29:17 +0200 Message-ID: <1176150557.8459.47.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1176136628.8459.34.camel@johannes.berg> <461A70A5.8060607@trash.net> <20070409.114402.45491411.davem@davemloft.net> <461A9DF1.8080904@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-lixq4CV6YEBERVLNiOwD" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, dim@openvz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, containers@lists.osdl.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, greearb@candelatech.com To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:58357 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308AbXDIU3M (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:29:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <461A9DF1.8080904@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-lixq4CV6YEBERVLNiOwD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:11 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Thats why I suggested that we should create one, ideally before adding > more sysfs/proc/ioctl/... based interfaces, which we'll have a hard time > getting rid of again. But then how would we configure initial parameters along with creating the interface? That's something that's good to have, and I don't see how you can allow it generically. Then again, you can of course always add an interface and then change its operating parameters etc. but that isn't atomic any more. johannes --=-lixq4CV6YEBERVLNiOwD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGGqId/ETPhpq3jKURAueIAKCGMhjHxdXROv6ESN7tXft6ENdOPACeJU8A nOHvUtLTgN30dkb9puWD1DQ= =pmaM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lixq4CV6YEBERVLNiOwD--