From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: netdev_ops? Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:36:25 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F1E2CE9.2080404@candelatech.com> References: <3F1E17BC.30100@candelatech.com> <20030722220745.379a73c6.davem@redhat.com> <3F1E1D62.90009@candelatech.com> <20030722230215.284dd270.davem@redhat.com> <3F1E2A00.5080506@candelatech.com> <20030722232719.216d7823.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030722232719.216d7823.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > You gain nothing from this patch, just put it into your drivers. I am not writing drivers, I'm trying to write code that works with everything that looks remotely like an ethernet device. Thus, I can make this one change and work with ALL drivers, and not have to corrupt every friggin driver under the sun. And yes, I realize this patch is not adding a new ioctl..that is the whole point. > > Your patch is even more useless than I thought it was going to > be. :-) I really hope you mis-understood it :) Note it allows me to get a binary representation of the net_device_stats w/out having to parse /proc/net/dev or figure out the vast complexity of libnetlink. I have plenty of other things that are currently new ioctls that could be handled the same, and thus I could continue to avoid issues with other platforms. Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear