From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: SIOCADDMULTI for unicast broken
Date: 06 Jan 2003 16:00:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smw6coha.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E163E4D.5090007@pobox.com>
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
> No! procfs additions are discouraged. sysfs in 2.5.x if you _must_
> do this, but SIOCDEVPRIVATE or just flat out maintaining a kernel
> patch against a stable kernel tree would be much preferred, I think.
Still, SIOCDEVPRIVATE should _not_, in my opinion, be used for anything
but hacks.
For example, we should stop using it for configuring ethernet bridges:
net/bridge/br_device.c: if (cmd != SIOCDEVPRIVATE)
--
Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-06 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-03 21:46 SIOCADDMULTI for unicast broken jamal
2003-01-04 0:07 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 1:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-04 1:39 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 1:45 ` Ben Greear
2003-01-04 1:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-06 15:00 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2003-01-04 2:18 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 4:11 ` jamal
2003-01-04 6:33 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 17:41 ` jamal
2003-01-04 18:24 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 18:55 ` jamal
2003-01-04 18:36 ` Julian Anastasov
2003-01-04 19:04 ` jamal
2003-01-05 11:45 ` Julian Anastasov
2003-01-06 13:44 ` jamal
2003-01-06 15:00 ` Julian Anastasov
2003-01-06 17:23 ` jamal
2003-01-04 7:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-04 17:43 ` jamal
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