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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 20:07:59 +0100
From: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [TSN RFC v2 0/9] TSN driver for the kernel
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 01:20:57PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:12:44 -0800
>=20
> > On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 18:59 +0100, henrik@austad.us wrote:
> >> From: Henrik Austad <haustad@cisco.com>
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >> The driver is directed via ConfigFS as we need userspace to handle
> >> stream-reservation (MSRP), discovery and enumeration (IEEE 1722.1) and
> >> whatever other management is needed. This also includes running an
> >> appropriate PTP daemon (TSN favors gPTP).
> >=20
> > I suggest using a generic netlink interface to communicate with the
> > driver to set up and/or configure your drivers.
> >=20
> > I think configfs is frowned upon for network drivers.  YMMV.
>=20
> Agreed.

Ok - thanks!

I will have look at netlink and see if I can wrap my head around it and if=
=20
I can apply it to how to bring the media-devices up once the TSN-link has=
=20
been configured.

Thanks! :)

--=20
Henrik Austad

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