netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V1 1/9] IB/ipoib: Add support for clones / multiple childs on the same partition

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:24:58 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	roland@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ali@...lanox.com,
	sean.hefty@...el.com, shlomop@...lanox.com, erezsh@...lanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V1 1/9] IB/ipoib: Add support for clones /
 multiple childs on the same partition

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:38 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>

>> All sorts of childs are still created/deleted through sysfs, in a
>> similar manner to the way legacy child interfaces are.

> Network device instantiation of this type is the domain of
> rtnl_link_ops rather than ugly sysfs interfaces.

Didn't add any **new** sysfs interfaces in this patch. The IPoIB sysfs
entries to create child devices are there from IPoIB's day one, and
we're only extending them a tiny bit.

Or.
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