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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:24:01 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: dm@...lsio.com Cc: shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile From: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@...lsio.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:19:21 -0700 > So, I propose getting rid of 3-4 of these files that are of lesser > value and moving the rest to debugfs for now. If some alternative > through ethtool or something becomes available I can get rid of > anything that can be handled through a more general facility. Would > that be acceptable? You can use sysfs. I have a similar issue on NIU wherein a top-level set of logic behaves like a parent virtual device and contains attributes I'd like to export. I create a dummy platform device to represent this node and hang the device sysfs information in that device's sysfs directory. It shows up as /sys/devices/platform/niu.%d and the network ports underneath this parent appear as symlinks named "port%d" (part of this is setup in drivers/net/niu.c:niu_get_parent() and niu_new_parent()) You could do something similar to represent the fact that these statistics are virtualized and belong to some centralized virtual entity that represents one or more actual device ports. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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