From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: add device groups Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:24:10 -0500 Message-ID: <1294669450.6063.319.camel@mojatatu> References: <1294659524-22509-1-git-send-email-ddvlad@rosedu.org> <1294666875.3583.6.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1294668021.6063.315.camel@mojatatu> <1294668505.3583.9.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Vlad Dogaru , Octavian Purdila , netdev To: Johannes Berg Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:45150 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753415Ab1AJOYL (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:24:11 -0500 Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so8070129vws.19 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:24:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1294668505.3583.9.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:08 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Right, but where would you want to use it -- what's the use case right > now? Your ppp example here makes me think the use case is some PPP > endpoint server that has lots of these interfaces. That was just an example because someone mentioned PPP earlier. Originally, this came from someone (Octavian?) trying to setup a gazillion netdevs for testing purposes and then needing to do "ip link ls dummy*" which causes a gazillion messages between kernel and user space and all the filtering of what dummy* being done in user space. > It also means the > grouping is entirely user-space controlled. In this case, the idea of > automatically grouping based on the device structure seems pointless. You still havent said what you want this grouping for. What is your use case? ;-> cheers, jamal