From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/30] solos: Handle attribute show/store in kernel more sanely Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:44:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20090317154411.598b9f00@nehalam> References: <1237310370.27681.314.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <1237325355.27681.335.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Woodhouse Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:40084 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753168AbZCQWoV (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:44:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1237325355.27681.335.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:29:15 +0000 David Woodhouse wrote: > There are still a _lot_ of attributes, but for at least the basic ones > we want to be able to get/set them from the kernel. Especially the ones > we want to inform the ATM core about (link state, speed). > > Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse > --- Since these are generic, please use some form of netlink for this instead of sysfs. Bonding was the first mistake (trying to use sysfs for a transactional API). Pls don't repeat the mistake.