netdev - Re: [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization

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Message-ID: <OFA817AEA2.469903E5-ONC12577B4.004DBC8C-C12577B4.004DFF18@ch.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:11:55 +0200
From:	Bernard Metzler <BMT@...ich.ibm.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization



Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote on 10/06/2010 12:02:42 AM:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:57:21 +0200
> Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org> wrote:
>
> > > + * TODO: Dynamic device management (network device
> registration/removal).
> >
> > The current implementation is such that one siw device is created for
> > each network device found at kernel module load time. That means that
> > you force the user to load the siw kernel module after all other
> > kernel modules that register a network device. I'm not sure that's a
> > good idea.
>
> Then device should be controlled by a netlink (rtnl_link_ops) style
> interface see vlan_netlink.c. Using netlink is extensible and provides
> a cleaner interface than all these other parameterization methods.

makes sense to me. Bart?

thanks,
bernard.

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