Am Donnerstag 19 Januar 2006 16:56 schrieb John W. Linville: > The above represents my thinking on the issue. Ultimately the WiPHY > (aka radio) device should be thought of as a new class of driver, > distinct from a netdev. If we have to reroute some infrastructure > (i.e. qdisc) to make that practical, we should do so. > > It makes the job bigger, but I think it is the right way to go.
I couldn't disagree more. There is absolutely no point in duplicating infrastructure used for queuing, qdisc interface, NAPI, managing multicast reception, registration + reference count, statistics, etc. just to avoid the master device showing up in ifconfig. We would increase maintenance burden and development time, and this in a situation where we'll have more than enough code to write and test. Let us be pragmatic: As soon as we realize that we need more then just a totally trivial part of the networking core, the master device should be a netdev. Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
