Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262380AbVBCAOA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:14:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262834AbVBCAKf (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:10:35 -0500 Received: from kludge.physics.uiowa.edu ([128.255.33.129]:14093 "EHLO kludge.physics.uiowa.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262581AbVBCAJq (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:09:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:09:17 -0600 From: Joseph Pingenot To: Pavel Roskin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Patrick Mochel Subject: Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules Message-ID: <20050203000917.GA12204@digitasaru.net> Reply-To: trelane@digitasaru.net Mail-Followup-To: Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Patrick Mochel References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-School: University of Iowa X-vi-or-emacs: vi *and* emacs! X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Not Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1264 Lines: 24 >From Pavel Roskin on Wednesday, 02 February, 2005: >All I want to do is to have a module that would create subdirectories for >some network interfaces under /sys/class/net/*/, which would contain >additional parameters for those interfaces. I'm not creating a new >subsystem or anything like that. sysctl is not good because the data is >interface specific. ioctl on a socket would be OK, although it wouldn't >be easily scriptable. The restriction on sysfs symbols would just force >me to write a proprietary userspace utility to set those parameters >instead of using a shell script. Please pardon my ignorance, but if the existing network device management framework is insufficient, it seems that the optimal way to deal with this is to work with the community to address the insufficiencies, not hacking in a new interface to the device. -Joseph -- Joseph===============================================trelane@digitasaru.net Graduate Student in Physics, Freelance Free Software Developer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/