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: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:45:47 +0300 Message-ID: <20050208164547.GA2928@katya> References: <20050206191918.GA2369@katya> <200502081502.j18F2ITI010672@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502081502.j18F2ITI010672@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 Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:02:19AM -0500, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: > >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? > > with sysfs support the only thing left to 'fix' would be splitting of > allocation/registration. I beg your pardon, but are you saying that you've changed your mind re. moving to net_device? Is your plan now to cast in stone that ATM devices live under class/atm in sysfs, and go ahead with splitting of allocation/registration of the current atm_dev? Roman.