Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net interfaces

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:11:24 -0700

A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:09:36AM -0500, [email-masked] wrote:
> I was thinking, if we're not planning on use the chardev/kernel route.
> There already exists an ifindex file in /sys/class/net/XXX/ifindex.
> Should udev/helper be creating links to this, or is it better to keep
> everything under the /dev/ tree?  Using this method would require the
> patch to udev to handle renaming events.

Please never create symlinks out of /dev/ to /sys that doesn't make
sense at all and probably violates part of the LSB somewhere...

thanks,

greg k-h