From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] atm: expose ATM device index in sysfs Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 16:57:49 +0200 Message-ID: <1306508269.3445.0.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <1306432057.3151.10.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> <1306432509.2543.1.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1306434959.3151.39.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> <1306507915.22126.2.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Chas Williams , David Woodhouse To: Dan Williams Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:35092 "EHLO mail-ww0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751280Ab1E0O5z (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2011 10:57:55 -0400 Received: by wwk4 with SMTP id 4so5491580wwk.1 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 07:57:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1306507915.22126.2.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le vendredi 27 mai 2011 =C3=A0 09:51 -0500, Dan Williams a =C3=A9crit : > It's currently exposed only through /proc which, besides requiring > screen-scraping, doesn't allow userspace to distinguish between two > identical ATM adapters with different ATM indexes. The ATM device in= dex > is required when using PPPoATM on a system with multiple ATM adapters= =2E >=20 > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams > --- >=20 Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet