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Re: Why /sys/class/net/*/features is read-only?

To: "Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE" <util@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Why /sys/class/net/*/features is read-only?
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 09:28:27 -0700
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On Mon, 23 May 2005 10:46:50 +0300 (EEST)
"Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE" <util@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Why features file is read-only. If an admin want to force some attributes, 
> we can let them, right?
>

Leave it read-only because the hardware may not want to allow them on that 
flavor and so it would
have to be device specific.

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