From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] Alternative hidden netwirk device interface Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:40:59 -0800 Message-ID: <20070131104059.32cf8966@freekitty> References: <20070129184707.885764375.midnight@suse.cz> <20070129102814.6385ad2d@freekitty> <20070129140958.0cf6880f@freekitty> <20070131192647.42d87c10@griffin.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , David Miller To: Jiri Benc Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:42520 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932918AbXAaSoV (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:44:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070131192647.42d87c10@griffin.suse.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:26:47 +0100 Jiri Benc wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:09:58 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Change to allow register_netdevice() to be called with a blank name. > > If name is blank, it is not put in name hash list, and doesn't > > show up in /sys or /proc > > What about things like neigh_sysctl_register which expects nonempty dev > name or rtnetlink_event which sends a RTM_NEWLINK event (I doubt that > listeners are prepared for nonempty dev name)? that is fixable. > Also, if the interface has ifindex assigned it is accessible from user > space (although it's unlikely anybody would call anything on it) - what > should be the correct result of e.g. SIOCGIFNAME? blank? > > Thanks, > > Jiri > -- Stephen Hemminger