netdev - Re: [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization

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Date:	Wed, 6 Oct 2010 18:06:52 +0200
From:	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Bernard Metzler <bmt@...ich.ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
> 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.

That will be a lot more work to implement than what Jason proposed:
adding a sysfs variable per Ethernet driver, e.g.
/sys/class/net/eth0/enable_iwarp.

Bart.
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