Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: add device groups

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:08 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

Right, but where would you want to use it -- what's the use case right
now? Your ppp example here makes me think the use case is some PPP
endpoint server that has lots of these interfaces. 

That was just an example because someone mentioned PPP earlier.
Originally, this came from someone (Octavian?) trying to setup
a gazillion netdevs for testing purposes and then needing to
do "ip link ls dummy*" which causes a gazillion messages between
kernel and user space and all the filtering of what dummy* being
done in user space.

It also means the
grouping is entirely user-space controlled. In this case, the idea of
automatically grouping based on the device structure seems pointless.

You still havent said what you want this grouping for. What is your
use case? ;->

cheers,
jamal