From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: cardoe@cardoe.com
Cc: kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan'
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:53:43 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121105.005343.973313737817968846.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFWqQMSes5J1bjUA6NBiWKrjbdUKJkhz-mdNYhGLU-A8cksxZg@mail.gmail.com>
From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:45:56 -0600
> As Ben Greear pointed out this would allow shell scripts and other
> scripting languages to better detect vlans. Kay pointed out that this
> would allow better uevent filters in the future as well. So there are
> some merits to this patch. If you'd prefer I can resubmit with a
> better commit message entailing the reasons behind it.
For the thousandth time:
All of those scripts and other users of this new facility will
need to have backup code to detect vlan devices when this
sysfs thing is not present.
They are already to determine this information already, and
they alreayd have to be ugly to handle EVERY EXISTING KERNEL
ON THE PLANET.
So the effective value is zero.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-05 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-22 5:53 [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan' Doug Goldstein
2012-10-23 6:36 ` David Miller
2012-10-23 10:34 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-23 17:11 ` David Miller
2012-10-23 16:14 ` Ben Greear
2012-10-23 22:52 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-10-23 23:03 ` Ben Greear
2012-11-05 5:45 ` Doug Goldstein
2012-11-05 5:53 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-11-05 6:19 ` Doug Goldstein
2012-11-05 6:44 ` David Miller
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