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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: RFC for sysfs management of TIPC
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:19:03 -0500 (EST)
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From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:14:12 -0500

> TIPC currently provides a netlink interface towards a user space 
> program (tipc-config), which is used to turn the different knobs
> and levers of TIPC. 
> This program is provided by some distributions package systems,
> and is also downloadable from SourceForge.
> 
> Now, we are considering the option of making the configuration 
> available as a structured tree in sysfs.

If you've already made the netlink mechanism for all of this,
do not bother with SYSFS.