From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev_ops Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:24:35 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F0C5DE3.7000506@candelatech.com> References: <20030708163042.GL23597@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <3F0B2D30.4020102@candelatech.com> <20030708212551.GL1939@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030708.150835.78728697.davem@redhat.com> <20030709161520.GW1939@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <3F0C4CA8.7090502@candelatech.com> <20030709181459.GE15293@gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthew Wilcox , netdev@oss.sgi.com, "David S. Miller" , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <20030709181459.GE15293@gtf.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:11:04AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > >>Also, for the strings (labels) passed back to user space, is there any >>documentation for suggested values for these strings? Even though we >>can't be completely type-safe, if there were suggested values in >>a comment in the code, it could help a great deal for any code trying to >>parse them for multiple different drivers/nics. > > > The strings represent NIC-specific attributes. Yes, but surely there is some comonality? I'm not asking for something set in stone, but just some general guidelines. However, I don't feel too strongly about this, so if it is not worth the time/effort, then I'll still be happy :) Ben > > Jeff > > -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear