netdev - Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net interfaces

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Message-ID: <20091030150050.GC25540@ldl.fc.hp.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:00:50 -0600
From:	dann frazier <dannf@...nf.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, Narendra_K@...l.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com,
	Charles_Rose@...l.com, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net
 interfaces

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 07:22:49AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 30, dann frazier <dannf@...com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:30:29AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > > On Oct 29, dann frazier <dannf@...nf.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > That would make a lot of users much happier (myself included), but it
> > > > does restrict us into one view. At different times, admins think of
> > > > their NICs by different properties. I may want to do IP assignment by
> > > [Citation needed]
> > Is "I" not clear, or do you just not believe I admin servers?
> I was referring to "At different times, admins think of their NICs by
> different properties", which I am not sure is a valid generalization.

Fair enough, I can't speak for others.

-- 
dann frazier

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