Re: RFC: Redirect-Device

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:52:29 -0800
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:45:38 -0800
> Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > >   Adding new ioctl's are very frowned on
> > 
> > Bummer.  I want these as well, makes programatic reading of the information
> > much easier than trying to parse some proc file.  I will look into what it
> > takes to make them compat with 64-bit as DaveM suggested.
> 
> You could extend and use ethtool.  That is what it's there for.

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.