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Re: RFC: Redirect-Device

from [Ben Greear] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RFC: Redirect-Device
From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:26:49 -0800
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:

Other possiblity is adding additional attributes onto the device with sysfs.
That is what net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c does. I'm not claiming it is a pretty
kernel programming model, but the user side API is simpler.


I prefer to stay away from sysfs.  procfs may have it's faults, but at
least in this case, it is quite straight-forward and easily does what
I need.  And procfs is less encumbered by flame wars :)

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


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