Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:55:35 -0800 | From | Stuart Lynne <> | Subject | Re: [RFC-2] Configuring Synchronous Interfaces in Linux |
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> > I have a vested interest in how this all turns out. I own a Packet Over SONET > device driver for our OC-12 and OC-48 NICs that I currently pass all parameters > to the driver via arguments on the insmod. To avoid lengthy commands, we > provide the common defaults. We accept some basic ifconfig input, but with > SONET/SDH and chip specific items that needed to be controlled, ifconfig did not > seem the way to go.
Ditto, we have an adsl driver that we setup by overloading various otherwise unused options in ifconfig (mem_start, io_addr etc) to do this. Cheaper and faster than writing yet another ioctl using device configuration agent, but distasteful non the less.
Some generic way to pass configuration data using a generic configuration agent to network (and other) drivers would be interesting.
> > > I'm willing to go for this implementation, but I wanted to know first: > > > - whether ifconfig is the right place to do it; > > > - where I should create the new ioctl's to handle these new parameters. > > > > I think a new ioctl would be sensible. There is a lot to go in it.
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