netdev - Re: [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization

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Date:	Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:26:33 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc:	Bernard Metzler <bmt@...ich.ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 18:06:52 +0200
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Stephen Hemminger
> <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:57:21 +0200
> > Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org> wrote:
> >
> >> > + * TODO: Dynamic device management (network device registration/removal).
> >>
> >> The current implementation is such that one siw device is created for
> >> each network device found at kernel module load time. That means that
> >> you force the user to load the siw kernel module after all other
> >> kernel modules that register a network device. I'm not sure that's a
> >> good idea.
> >
> > Then device should be controlled by a netlink (rtnl_link_ops) style
> > interface see vlan_netlink.c. Using netlink is extensible and provides
> > a cleaner interface than all these other parameterization methods.
> 
> That will be a lot more work to implement than what Jason proposed:
> adding a sysfs variable per Ethernet driver, e.g.
> /sys/class/net/eth0/enable_iwarp.

But if we let code in with that API, then we have to maintain it.
Netlink is the way to go.
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