Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/30] solos: Handle attribute show/store in kernel more sanely

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:44:11 -0700

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:29:15 +0000
David Woodhouse <[email-masked]> wrote:

> There are still a _lot_ of attributes, but for at least the basic ones
> we want to be able to get/set them from the kernel. Especially the ones
> we want to inform the ATM core about (link state, speed).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email-masked]>
> ---

Since these are generic, please use some form of netlink for this
instead of sysfs.

Bonding was the first mistake (trying to use sysfs for a transactional API).
Pls don't repeat the mistake.