netdev - Re: [PATCHv8 1/2] Interface group: core and netlink part

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Message-Id: <20080306.111519.46454329.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:15:19 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	panther@...abit.hu
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv8 1/2] Interface group: core and netlink part

From: Laszlo Attila Toth <panther@...abit.hu>
Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2008 15:03:58 +0100

> Interface groups let handle different interfaces together.
> Modified net device structure and netlink interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Attila Toth <panther@...abit.hu>

I can't say whether this makes sense without seeing how
it will actually be used.

And both of your patches here do nothing but set and
read this group value, making it useless.

If that's all it is, userland can record such mappings
in the filesystem or elsewhere such that multiple
applications can work with and maintain the relationships.
There is zero reason to add this bloat to the kernel in
such a case.
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