From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com
Cc: dannf@hp.com, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, Narendra_K@Dell.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Charles_Rose@Dell.com,
bhutchings@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net interfaces
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:11:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091028161124.GA2019@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5DDAB7BA7BDB58439DD0EED0B8E9A3AE02E827AF@ausx3mpc102.aus.amer.dell.com>
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:09:36AM -0500, Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com wrote:
> I was thinking, if we're not planning on use the chardev/kernel route.
> There already exists an ifindex file in /sys/class/net/XXX/ifindex.
> Should udev/helper be creating links to this, or is it better to keep
> everything under the /dev/ tree? Using this method would require the
> patch to udev to handle renaming events.
Please never create symlinks out of /dev/ to /sys that doesn't make
sense at all and probably violates part of the LSB somewhere...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-28 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-10-09 14:00 ` PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Narendra K
2009-10-09 14:51 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-09 16:23 ` Bryan Kadzban
2009-10-09 16:56 ` Marco d'Itri
2009-10-12 10:41 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-10-12 11:31 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-12 17:37 ` Bill Nottingham
2009-10-13 18:06 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-13 18:53 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-13 19:53 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-09 16:36 ` Greg KH
2009-10-09 17:17 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-09 17:22 ` Greg KH
2009-10-09 21:09 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-10 2:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-10 4:40 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-10 5:23 ` Greg KH
2009-10-10 8:17 ` Sujit K M
2009-10-10 16:27 ` Greg KH
2009-10-10 19:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-10 21:10 ` Greg KH
2009-10-10 12:47 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-10 16:25 ` Greg KH
2009-10-10 17:34 ` Bryan Kadzban
2009-10-10 21:13 ` Greg KH
2009-10-12 6:21 ` Bryan Kadzban
2009-10-12 16:19 ` Bryan Kadzban
2009-10-11 16:40 ` David Zeuthen
2009-10-11 18:47 ` Greg KH
2009-10-10 18:11 ` Bill Fink
2009-10-10 18:35 ` Kay Sievers
2009-10-11 21:10 ` Rob Townley
2009-10-11 23:04 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-12 3:00 ` Greg KH
2009-10-12 18:35 ` Rob Townley
2009-10-12 18:44 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-12 17:45 ` Bill Nottingham
2009-10-12 17:55 ` Greg KH
2009-10-12 18:07 ` Bill Nottingham
2009-10-12 18:15 ` Greg KH
2009-10-10 18:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-10 21:06 ` Greg KH
2009-10-13 18:02 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-13 18:53 ` Narendra_K
2009-10-12 7:30 ` Kurt Van Dijck
2009-10-11 0:37 ` Marco d'Itri
2009-10-13 15:08 ` dann frazier
2009-10-13 17:13 ` Narendra_K
2009-10-13 17:36 ` dann frazier
2009-10-16 0:32 ` dann frazier
2009-10-16 14:02 ` Narendra_K
2009-10-16 15:20 ` dann frazier
2009-10-16 15:33 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-16 15:41 ` dann frazier
2009-10-16 21:40 ` dann frazier
2009-10-19 11:30 ` Narendra_K
2009-10-19 16:14 ` Bryan Kadzban
2009-11-04 14:23 ` Narendra_K
2009-11-06 8:49 ` Marco d'Itri
2009-11-06 22:06 ` Matt Domsch
2009-11-06 22:35 ` Marco d'Itri
2009-11-06 23:17 ` dann frazier
2009-11-09 14:41 ` Narendra_K
2009-11-10 17:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-11 6:31 ` Narendra_K
2009-11-06 22:05 ` Domsch, Matt
2009-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net interfaces dann frazier
2009-10-27 20:55 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-28 8:23 ` Kay Sievers
2009-10-28 13:03 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-28 15:09 ` dann frazier
2009-10-28 16:09 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2009-10-28 16:09 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2009-10-28 16:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-10-28 13:06 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-28 19:15 ` Narendra_K
2009-10-29 13:11 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-29 14:25 ` Greg KH
2009-10-29 16:44 ` Narendra_K
2009-10-29 16:52 ` Greg KH
2009-10-29 17:22 ` [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent netinterfaces Narendra_K
2009-10-29 17:50 ` dann frazier
2009-10-29 16:49 ` [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net interfaces Ben Hutchings
2009-10-29 16:55 ` Greg KH
2009-10-29 17:12 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-29 17:20 ` Greg KH
2009-10-29 17:46 ` dann frazier
2009-10-30 3:30 ` Marco d'Itri
2009-10-30 5:38 ` dann frazier
2009-10-30 6:22 ` Marco d'Itri
2009-10-30 15:00 ` dann frazier
2009-10-30 15:13 ` Narendra_K
2009-10-30 16:08 ` dann frazier
2009-10-30 16:53 ` [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent netinterfaces Narendra_K
2009-10-30 17:05 ` dann frazier
2009-10-30 17:10 ` [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net interfaces Matt Domsch
2009-10-30 17:13 ` Greg KH
2009-10-30 7:45 ` Hannes Reinecke
2009-10-30 16:22 ` Bryan Kadzban
2009-10-30 16:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-13 19:51 ` PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Greg KH
2009-10-13 20:00 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2009-10-13 20:19 ` Greg KH
2009-10-13 22:05 ` Matt Domsch
2009-10-13 22:08 ` dann frazier
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