netdev - Re: [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device

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Message-ID: <5086C256.20202@candelatech.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:14:14 -0700
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	cardoe@...doe.com, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	systemd-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan'

On 10/22/2012 11:36 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@...doe.com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:53:57 -0500
>
>> Sets the sysfs device_type to 'vlan' for udev. This makes it easier for
>> applications that query network information via udev to identify vlans
>> instead of using strrchr().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@...doe.com>
>
> You're extremely misguided.  This change, in fact, makes it ten times
> harder for such applications to query such devices.

If the application doesn't care, it can use the old way (which at least
for me, involves string-comparing the driver name ethtool returns, which
sucks at best).

And applications that care might suddenly have more features, or be more
efficient when running on newer kernels..

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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