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From: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: 'default' vs. 'all'
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:14:11 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071208.001411.86141788.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071208.000429.66028544.davem@davemloft.net>

In article <20071208.000429.66028544.davem@davemloft.net> (at Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:04:29 -0800 (PST)), David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> says:

> Herbert, Yoshifuji and I were just discussing the
> sysfs device attribute issue.
> 
> It's seems sane to me that if we had some kind of
> 'dirty' bit per attribute we could propagate default
> settings everywhere except where the dirty bit had
> been set.

One good event to propagate is the NETDEV_UP; if the dirty bit is
not set when the device is brought up, copy the default values to
the device.

Regards,

--yoshfuji @ Seattle

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-08  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-08  8:04 'default' vs. 'all' David Miller
2007-12-08  8:14 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 [this message]
2007-12-08 11:23   ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-08 11:21 ` Herbert Xu

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