[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Jun 5 13:47:39 PDT 2008


 > > There is nothing stopping adding a well designed alternate interface.
 > > Either netlink or ioctl's are okay. As long as it is 32/64 bit clean.

 > From a quick look it seems it should use rtnl_link instead
 > of adding yet another private sysfs interface.

This seems crazy -- why do we want to push things towards the complexity
of rtnl_link instead of a simple text-based interface that can be
trivial used with 'echo' from the shell?  What advantages does that
give?

 - R.



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