netdev - Re: [PATCH 03/17] batman-adv: Add network_coding and mcast sysfs files to README

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Message-ID: <20161029103301.GD1692@nanopsycho.orion>
Date:   Sat, 29 Oct 2016 12:33:01 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org,
        Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/17] batman-adv: Add network_coding and mcast sysfs
 files to README

Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:01:36PM CEST, sw@...onwunderlich.de wrote:
>From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
>
>Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
>Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
>---
> Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
>index d414e60..8afa991 100644
>--- a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
>+++ b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
>@@ -71,10 +71,11 @@ All  mesh  wide  settings  can be found in batman's own interface
> folder:
> 
> # ls /sys/class/net/bat0/mesh/
>-#aggregated_ogms        distributed_arp_table  gw_sel_class    orig_interval
>-#ap_isolation           fragmentation          hop_penalty     routing_algo
>-#bonding                gw_bandwidth           isolation_mark  vlan0
>-#bridge_loop_avoidance  gw_mode                log_level
>+# aggregated_ogms        fragmentation  isolation_mark  routing_algo
>+# ap_isolation           gw_bandwidth   log_level       vlan0
>+# bonding                gw_mode        multicast_mode
>+# bridge_loop_avoidance  gw_sel_class   network_coding
>+# distributed_arp_table  hop_penalty    orig_interval

I strongly believe it is a huge mistake to use sysfs for things like
this. This should be done via generic netlink api.
>