From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VLAN subinterfaces, bridges and udev
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 21:43:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060501194319.GD14523@wonderland.linux.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445630FC.3030300@candelatech.com>
On May 01, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> >Can I rely on the presence of the $DEVPATH/driver symlink (e.g.
> >/sys/class/net/eth0/driver) to check if a network interface is a "real"
> >device insteaf of a VLAN or a bridge?
> To distinguish I use a VLAN specific IOCTL (GET_VLAN_REALDEV_NAME_CMD).
> If that IOCTL has no error, then it is a VLAN.
This is not useful for udev, it needs something available in sysfs.
--
ciao,
Marco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-01 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-30 14:29 VLAN subinterfaces, bridges and udev Marco d'Itri
2006-05-01 16:02 ` Ben Greear
2006-05-01 19:43 ` Marco d'Itri [this message]
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