netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/8] can: CAN Network device driver and SYSFS interface

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Message-ID: <499E7B9B.6030603@trash.net>
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:44:59 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] can: CAN Network device driver and SYSFS interface

Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> The CAN network device driver interface provides a generic interface to
> setup, configure and monitor CAN network devices. It exports a set of
> common data structures and functions, which all real CAN network device
> drivers should use. Please have a look to the SJA1000 or MSCAN driver
> to understand how to use them. The name of the module is can-dev.ko.
> 
> Furthermore adds a SYSFS interface to set and get CAN device properties.
> When the CAN device is registered, a set of SYSFS files is created in
> "/sys/class/net/canX/". These files allow to set and get device
> properties like bit-timing parameters, state, controller mode and CAN
> statistics.

Is sysfs really the best choice for this? It has the usual problems,
you can't change multiple parameters at once atomically. Now, I don't
know whether this is actually (and currently) a problem for CAN, but
given that we already have a generic netlink interface for creating
network interfaces that can easily support this, what are the reasons
for adding a new interface instead of using the existing one?
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