Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:11:39 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan' | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:34:11 +0200
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: >> From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com> >> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:53:57 -0500 >> >>> Sets the sysfs device_type to 'vlan' for udev. This makes it easier for >>> applications that query network information via udev to identify vlans >>> instead of using strrchr(). >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com> >> >> You're extremely misguided. This change, in fact, makes it ten times >> harder for such applications to query such devices. > > That makes not much sense, really. Every new interface would fall into > that category. At least I can't see any mis-guidance here. The other > devtypes for the major netif types are not that much older.
Only interfaces which provide a facility available in another way fall into this category.
Thanks for the scarecrow, but no.
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