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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: RFC:  Redirect-Device
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:26:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <424C7929.6080200@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050331140525.04f9a2b1@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Other possiblity is adding additional attributes onto the device with sysfs.
> That is what net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c does. I'm not claiming it is a pretty
> kernel programming model, but the user side API is simpler.

I prefer to stay away from sysfs.  procfs may have it's faults, but at
least in this case, it is quite straight-forward and easily does what
I need.  And procfs is less encumbered by flame wars :)

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-31 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-31 20:41 RFC: Redirect-Device Ben Greear
2005-03-31 21:02 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-31 21:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-31 21:45   ` Ben Greear
2005-03-31 21:52     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-31 22:04       ` Ben Greear
2005-03-31 22:21         ` David S. Miller
2005-03-31 22:05       ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-31 22:26         ` Ben Greear [this message]
2005-03-31 22:33           ` David S. Miller
2005-03-31 22:42             ` Ben Greear
2005-03-31 22:43               ` David S. Miller
2005-03-31 21:13 ` jamal
2005-03-31 21:26   ` Ben Greear
2005-03-31 21:53     ` jamal
2005-03-31 22:22       ` Ben Greear
2005-03-31 22:35         ` David S. Miller
2005-03-31 22:54           ` Ben Greear
2005-03-31 23:26             ` jamal
2005-03-31 23:56               ` Ben Greear
2005-04-01  0:53                 ` jamal
2005-04-01  9:01                 ` bert hubert
2005-04-01 16:58                   ` Ben Greear
2005-03-31 22:46         ` Thomas Graf
2005-03-31 23:00           ` Ben Greear
2005-03-31 23:20         ` jamal
2005-03-31 23:35           ` Ben Greear
2005-03-31 23:46             ` jamal
2005-04-02  8:41   ` Meelis Roos
2005-04-02 21:08     ` jamal
2005-04-01  5:03 ` Pekka Savola
2005-04-01  5:27   ` Ben Greear
2005-04-01  9:28     ` Pekka Savola
2005-04-01 16:29       ` Ben Greear

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