netdev - Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/6] Introduce devlink interface and first drivers to use it

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Date:	Thu, 4 Feb 2016 14:26:23 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, idosch@...lanox.com,
	eladr@...lanox.com, yotamg@...lanox.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com,
	yishaih@...lanox.com, dledford@...hat.com, sean.hefty@...el.com,
	hal.rosenstock@...il.com, eugenia@...lanox.com,
	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com,
	hadarh@...lanox.com, jhs@...atatu.com, john.fastabend@...il.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, jbenc@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/6] Introduce devlink interface and first
 drivers to use it

Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 02:22:17PM CET, hannes@...essinduktion.org wrote:
>On 03.02.2016 16:17, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>On 02/03/2016 02:33 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>>Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:31:33PM CET, brouer@...hat.com wrote:
>>>>On Wed,  3 Feb 2016 11:47:56 +0100
>>>>Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>>>>>From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>>[...]
>>>>>It is available here:
>>>>>https://github.com/jpirko/devlink
>>>>
>>>>IHMO this very short command name "dl" is not an advantage.  It is
>>>>simply too unspecific and short for a good Google search.  E.g. when
>>>>searching for good examples for using "dl".  I think "devlink" would be
>>>>better.  If you like short commands do: alias dl="devlink"
>>>
>>>I was thinking about using "devlink". Decided to go with shortened
>>>version so this is in-line with "ip". But you have a point.
>>
>>Btw, if you add this tool into iproute2 (which would be preferred), then
>>probably dl should be ok (and easier retrievable in that relation).
>
>This doesn't seem to be too much related to networking? Why can't something
>like this be in sysfs?

It is related to networking quite bit. There has been couple of
iteration of this, including sysfs and configfs implementations. There
has been a consensus reached that this should be done by netlink. I
believe netlink is really the best for this purpose. Sysfs is not a good
idea.