Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 17:13:12 -0700 | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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> > I suppose that for network interface names, some convention for > > interface ioctls would suffice to solve that "identify" step. PCI > > devices would return the slot_name, USB devices need something > > like a patch I posted to linux-usb-devel a few months back. > > This is crap.
Only the ioctl part, though I confess to trolling for a better proposal ... :)
> If you want to do it - do it right. Accessing /dev/eth/<n>/MAC > is trivial. Wanking with ioctls is not. And populating such tree > is as simple as it gets.
For links without a stable MAC, /.../net/<ifname>/{pci-slot,usb-path,...} is more like it, but I think that class of solution should be fine.
Now ... what should be the roles of "regular" file ops, devfs, usbdevfs, procfs, and "devreg" ? That's the part that doesn't seem simple yet. I'd expect a few rounds of code/design changes.
- Dave
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