From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
kirill@shutemov.name, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
kaber@trash.net, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFD] Network configuration data in sysfs
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:54:03 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA5FA9B.5050908@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPXgP10PZU+xSbQW-CH-E5rCk3-=1k-AvAs=tF8fAnz7QsmJRw@mail.gmail.com>
24.10.2011 16:46, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Kirill, what exactly is the use case? And why what does udev support
> mean in that context?
>
> I doubt that "not having /sbin/ip installed" should be a reason to add
> and expose complex interfaces in /sys, while we already have a
> perfectly working native way to do it.
Adding NETLINK_ROUTE in udev is a way to perform some actions in case
of network events without polling. Now there are only a few specific
daemons (NM, connman etc) that are listen to the netlink socket and
setup the network his own way.
--
Rgrds, legion
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-25 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-23 23:35 [RFD] Network configuration data in sysfs Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-10-24 0:49 ` David Miller
2011-10-24 1:34 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-10-24 3:24 ` David Miller
2011-10-24 4:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-10-24 4:59 ` David Miller
2011-10-24 12:46 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-24 23:54 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message]
2011-10-25 7:57 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-24 20:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
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