netdev - Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net interfaces

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Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:11:24 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com
Cc:	dannf@...com, Matt_Domsch@...l.com, kay.sievers@...y.org,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, Narendra_K@...l.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Charles_Rose@...l.com,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net
 interfaces


A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:09:36AM -0500, Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com wrote:
> I was thinking, if we're not planning on use the chardev/kernel route.
> There already exists an ifindex file in /sys/class/net/XXX/ifindex.
> Should udev/helper be creating links to this, or is it better to keep
> everything under the /dev/ tree?  Using this method would require the
> patch to udev to handle renaming events.

Please never create symlinks out of /dev/ to /sys that doesn't make
sense at all and probably violates part of the LSB somewhere...

thanks,

greg k-h
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