netdev - Re: 'default' vs. 'all'

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Message-Id: <20071208.001411.86141788.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:14:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: 'default' vs. 'all'

In article <20071208.000429.66028544.davem@...emloft.net> (at Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:04:29 -0800 (PST)), David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> says:

> Herbert, Yoshifuji and I were just discussing the
> sysfs device attribute issue.
> 
> It's seems sane to me that if we had some kind of
> 'dirty' bit per attribute we could propagate default
> settings everywhere except where the dirty bit had
> been set.

One good event to propagate is the NETDEV_UP; if the dirty bit is
not set when the device is brought up, copy the default values to
the device.

Regards,

--yoshfuji @ Seattle
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