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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] vlan: add sysfs support
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 15:26:37 -0700
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On Mon, 01 May 2006 15:07:14 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Add basic sysfs support for vlan device. It creates an entry in the
> > vlan pseudo-device to display tag.  
> > 	/sys/class/net/eth0.5/vlan_id
> 
> Looks fine to me, though I don't know enough about sysfs to notice
> any bugs with it...
> 
> I do have a question:  Will this work for > 256 vlans?
> 
> /proc had a limit of around 256 directories last I
> checked, so just curious.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 

There should be no limits caused by sysfs...