From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:58:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461A70A5.8060607@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176136628.8459.34.camel@johannes.berg>
Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:51 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>
>>The only sysfs attributes that were always available that I could find
>>were module parameters. A little odd because we can specify them on
>>the kernel command line, or when loading the module in addition to
>>being available at run time.
>>
>>It gives me a general interface that is usable so long as the module
>>is loaded, and does not depend on the availability of any specific
>>network device. I will happily use any other interface that gives
>>me the same level of functionality for the roughly the same level
>>of effort.
>
>
> Just for consideration, in wireless we currently create virtual network
> devices by having a "add_iface" and "remove_iface" sysfs files below the
> ieee80211 class.
It would be nice if someone would finally come up with a generic
interface based on netlink (RTM_NEWLINK) instead of adding yet
another couple of homegrown interfaces.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-09 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-06 20:43 [PATCH] net: Add etun driver Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 20:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 21:38 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-06 20:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 22:01 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-07 2:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-09 16:37 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-09 16:58 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-04-09 18:14 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-09 18:37 ` David Miller
2007-04-09 18:48 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-09 18:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-09 18:44 ` David Miller
2007-04-09 19:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-09 19:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 20:03 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-09 20:11 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-09 20:29 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 0:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 5:47 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 6:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-10 6:18 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 7:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 9:18 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 9:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 10:27 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 10:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 11:02 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 11:09 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 11:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10 11:24 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 12:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 13:44 ` John W. Linville
2007-04-10 13:48 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 21:16 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-11 16:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-11 16:43 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-11 16:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-11 16:59 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-11 16:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 20:57 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-07 2:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 21:20 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-07 2:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-07 3:31 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-07 5:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-07 7:31 ` Ben Greear
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