From: Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:34:11 +0200
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: >> From: Doug Goldstein <car...@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 <car...@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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
