netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] net/core: API to create/destroy /sys/class/net entries

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Message-ID: <20080416181200.2b84ef5a@extreme>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:12:00 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net/core: API to create/destroy /sys/class/net
 entries

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:06:26 -0700
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> 	Some background: 
> 
> 	Bonding creates a file in sysfs, /sys/class/net/bonding_masters,

That is a problem because it confuses scripts that use /sys/class/net/X
to find a list of network devices. I.e. that was a bad API choice.
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