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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:21:10 +0100

> Sysfs is not the place to do this things.

+1

> It was already discussed here multiple times. There was and attempt
> to use configfs, which was also refused. Netlink is the only place
> to go. For multiple reasons, including well defined api and
> behaviour, notifications, etc.

+1