netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/12] cdc_ncm: add buffer tuning and stats using ethtool

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Message-Id: <20140518.180812.1049323503041824106.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 18 May 2014 18:08:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bjorn@...k.no
Cc:	peter@...ge.se, mrkiko.rs@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, alexey.orishko@...il.com,
	oliver@...kum.org, David.Laight@...lab.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/12] cdc_ncm: add buffer tuning and stats
 using ethtool

From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 16:50:30 +0200

> I could be wrong, but my impression is that the userspace API
> preferences for network devices are
> 
>  1. ethtool
>  2. sysfs
>  3. module param
>  ..
>  99. ioctl

I would swap module param and ioctl, module params are the least
desirable interface and strongly discouraged.
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