Subject: Re: RFC: Redirect-Device

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:26:49 -0800

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Other possiblity is adding additional attributes onto the device with sysfs.
> That is what net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c does. I'm not claiming it is a pretty
> kernel programming model, but the user side API is simpler.

I prefer to stay away from sysfs.  procfs may have it's faults, but at
least in this case, it is quite straight-forward and easily does what
I need.  And procfs is less encumbered by flame wars :)

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Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
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