[Linux-ATM-General] [RFC][PATCH] Very basic sysfs support for
ATM devices (updated)
chas williams - CONTRACTOR
chas at cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Tue Feb 8 10:02:19 EST 2005
In message <20050206191918.GA2369 at katya>,Roman Kagan writes:
>Is it publically available? Linux-ATM CVS appears to contain no
>kernelspace code. I'm just curious how atm_dev attributes are mapped to
>net_device's, which doesn't look easy with the current atm_dev and
>net_device.
not really. i just stuck attached the atm_dev to the netdevice's priv.
the only thing that really bothered me about this was that the atm
devices would show in an ifconfig. this might confuse some people.
>it is, maybe we shouldn't create an atm-specific user-visible interface
>in sysfs and hotplug which is going to be obsoleted by the net generic
>one in the near future?
with sysfs support the only thing left to 'fix' would be splitting of
allocation/registration.
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