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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net/core: API to create/destroy /sys/class/net
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:12:00 -0700
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:06:26 -0700
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> 	Some background: 
> 
> 	Bonding creates a file in sysfs, /sys/class/net/bonding_masters,

That is a problem because it confuses scripts that use /sys/class/net/X
to find a list of network devices. I.e. that was a bad API choice.