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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
	chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Subject: Re: [GIT *] Solos PCI ADSL card update
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:36:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237325795.27681.368.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090317134122.4da1b853@nehalam>

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:41 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I regret ever adding sysfs for network devices when it gets used
> for configuration interfaces like this mess.

Yeah, I wasn't massively keen on that either.

You didn't speak up a while back when I asked for opinions on how best
to handle this. Feel free to do so now... 

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-17 17:19 [GIT *] Solos PCI ADSL card update David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 19:23 ` David Miller
2009-03-17 20:41   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-17 21:36     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2009-03-17 21:33   ` David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 01/30] solos: Fix length header in FPGA transfers David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 02/30] solos: Slight debugging improvements David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 03/30] solos: FPGA and firmware update support David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 04/30] solos: Clean up firmware loading code David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 05/30] solos: Kill global 'opens' count David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 06/30] solos: Handle attribute show/store in kernel more sanely David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 22:44   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-17 22:49     ` David Woodhouse
2009-03-21 20:22       ` David Miller
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 08/30] solos: Handle new line status change packets, hook up to ATM layer info David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 07/30] solos: Add initial list of parameters David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 09/30] solos: Kill existing connections on link down event David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 10/30] solos: Reject non-AAL5 connections.... for now David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 11/30] solos: Add SNR and Attn to status packet, fix oops on load David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 12/30] solos: Fix under-allocation of skb size for get/set parameters David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 13/30] solos: Remove parameter group from sysfs on ATM dev deregister David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 14/30] solos: First attempt at DMA support David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 15/30] solos: Tidy up DMA handling a little. Still untested David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 16/30] solos: Tidy up tx_mask handling for ports which need TX David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 17/30] solos: Remove unused loopback debug stuff David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 18/30] solos: Remove IRQF_DISABLED, don't frob IRQ enable on the FPGA in solos_irq() David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 19/30] solos: Remove superfluous wait_queue_head_t from struct solos_param David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 20/30] solos: Fix various bugs in status packet handling David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 21/30] solos: Clean up handling of card->tx_mask a little David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 22/30] solos: Remove debugging, commented-out test code David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 23/30] solos: Add 'reset' module parameter to reset the DSL chips on load David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 24/30] solos: Tidy up status interrupt handling, cope with 'ERROR' status David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 25/30] solos: Don't clear config registers at startup David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 26/30] solos: Set RX empty flag at startup only for !dma mode David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 27/30] solos: Swap upstream/downstream rates in status packet, clean up some more David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 28/30] solos: Reset device on unload, free pending skbs David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 30/30] solos: Disable DMA until we have an FPGA update with it actually implemented David Woodhouse
2009-03-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 29/30] solos: Automatically determine number of ports David Woodhouse

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