netdev - Re: [PATCH 06/30] solos: Handle attribute show/store in kernel more sanely

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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:49:32 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/30] solos: Handle attribute show/store in kernel
 more sanely

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 15:44 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Since these are generic, please use some form of netlink for this
> instead of sysfs.
> 
> Bonding was the first mistake (trying to use sysfs for a transactional
> API).
> Pls don't repeat the mistake.

It's not a transactional API.

The sysfs model actually fits the communication with the hardware almost
perfectly -- there are a bunch of named parameters, all of which can be
read and a few of which can be written to. A sysfs read or write
translates directly into a single exchange with the device's firmware.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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