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Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:54:49 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, Amar Mudrankit <amar.mudrankit@...gic.com>, Dave Dillow <dillowda@...l.gov>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, general@...ts.openfabrics.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, poornima.kamath@...gic.com Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver Roland Dreier wrote: > > > There is nothing stopping adding a well designed alternate interface. > > > Either netlink or ioctl's are okay. As long as it is 32/64 bit clean. > > > From a quick look it seems it should use rtnl_link instead > > of adding yet another private sysfs interface. > > This seems crazy -- why do we want to push things towards the complexity > of rtnl_link instead of a simple text-based interface that can be > trivial used with 'echo' from the shell? Its not complicated at all. Ability to use "echo" seems like a pretty poor argument to me. > What advantages does that give? - atomic configuration changes - atomic configuration dumps - configuration change notifications - same interface as for all other network-related configurations - easily extensible - not yet another private driver interface - not text based, which makes it a lot more convenient for using in programs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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