On Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:44:52 CET Linus Lüssing wrote: [...]
No new sysfs config files.
Why? The bridge for instance does the same.
https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/patch/16763/ - here the quote
On Samstag, 29. Oktober 2016 12:33:01 CEST Jiri Pirko wrote:
I strongly believe it is a huge mistake to use sysfs for things like this. This should be done via generic netlink api.
We don't need to configuration interfaces - we only need the preferred one. If this is sysfs for you guys then we should not have started with generic netlink at all. And why wasn't this brought up now *after* the stuff was merged by David. It isn't the first time that I've stated clearly that there should be no new sysfs configuration files when we switch to genl.
If it now preferred to have sysfs again for configuration then please discuss it with the netdev folks and find out how the new generic netlink interface can be removed again before the next release.
Kind regards, Sven