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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan'
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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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