netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: add device groups

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Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:24:10 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>,
	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: add device groups

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:08 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> 
> Right, but where would you want to use it -- what's the use case right
> now? Your ppp example here makes me think the use case is some PPP
> endpoint server that has lots of these interfaces. 

That was just an example because someone mentioned PPP earlier.
Originally, this came from someone (Octavian?) trying to setup
a gazillion netdevs for testing purposes and then needing to
do "ip link ls dummy*" which causes a gazillion messages between
kernel and user space and all the filtering of what dummy* being
done in user space.

> It also means the
> grouping is entirely user-space controlled. In this case, the idea of
> automatically grouping based on the device structure seems pointless.

You still havent said what you want this grouping for. What is your
use case? ;->

cheers,
jamal

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