From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Kagan Subject: Re: [Linux-ATM-General] [RFC][PATCH] Very basic sysfs support for ATM devices (updated) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:19:18 +0300 Message-ID: <20050206191918.GA2369@katya> References: <20050204201327.GA2439@katya> <200502060133.j161XIj3007281@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, usbatm@lists.infradead.org To: chas3@users.sourceforge.net Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502060133.j161XIj3007281@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:33:18PM -0500, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: > In message <20050204201327.GA2439@katya>,Roman Kagan writes: > >initializing atm_dev. I suspect the only way to fix it is to split the > >atm_dev initialization into two stages, allocation and registration, as > >it is done for net_device. > > yeah which is why i just wanted to convert atm_dev to just be a netdevice. > the code is already written and "stable". Is it publically available? Linux-ATM CVS appears to contain no kernelspace code. I'm just curious how atm_dev attributes are mapped to net_device's, which doesn't look easy with the current atm_dev and net_device. Also, is it scheduled for inclusion in the mainline any time soon? If it is, maybe we shouldn't create an atm-specific user-visible interface in sysfs and hotplug which is going to be obsoleted by the net generic one in the near future? Roman.