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Date:   Sat, 7 Apr 2018 05:19:19 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Siwei Liu <loseweigh@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        si-wei liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] netdev: kernel-only IFF_HIDDEN netdevice

Hi Siwei

> I think everyone seems to agree not to fiddle with the ":" prefix, but
> rather have a new class of network subsystem under /sys/class thus a
> separate device namespace e.g. /sys/class/net-kernel for those
> auto-managed lower netdevs is needed.
 
How do you get a device into this new class? I don't know the Linux
driver model too well, but to get a device out of one class and into
another, i think you need to device_del(dev). modify dev->class and
then device_add(dev). However, device_add() says you are not allowed
to do this.

And i don't even see how this helps. Are you also not going to call
list_netdevice()? Are you going to add some other list for these
devices in a different class?

   Andrew

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