Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.us.dell.com (smtp3.us.dell.com [143.166.148.134]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id i0D2YZ6H023620 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:34:35 -0800 Received: from humbolt.us.dell.com (humbolt.us.dell.com [10.9.160.254]) by smtp3.us.dell.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0D2Y7tM019645; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:34:07 -0600 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:34:07 -0600 (CST) From: Matt Domsch X-X-Sender: mdomsch@humbolt.us.dell.com To: "Feldman, Scott" cc: Jeff Garzik , "Noam, Amir" , Jay Vosburgh , , Subject: RE: [Bonding-devel] Re: [bonding] Add basic support for dynamic configuration of bond interfaces In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by smtp3.us.dell.com id i0D2Y7tM019645 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by oss.sgi.com id i0D2YZ6H023620 X-archive-position: 2378 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: Matt_Domsch@dell.com Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev > Could sysfs be used for the bonding UI?  Seems like a natural fit. > Something like: > # echo "some params" >/sys/class/net/add_bond > # echo "byebye" >/sys/class/net/bond0/del_bond FWIW, this is exactly what we're doing with the efivars module to create and destroy EFI Variables now, and appears to be a sane approach. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com