Re: [PATCH net-next V1 1/9] IB/ipoib: Add support for clones / multiple childs on the same partition

From: Or Gerlitz <redacted>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:24:58 +0300

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:38 PM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

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From: Or Gerlitz <redacted>

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All sorts of childs are still created/deleted through sysfs, in a
similar manner to the way legacy child interfaces are.

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Network device instantiation of this type is the domain of
rtnl_link_ops rather than ugly sysfs interfaces.

Didn't add any **new** sysfs interfaces in this patch. The IPoIB sysfs
entries to create child devices are there from IPoIB's day one, and
we're only extending them a tiny bit.

That's extremely unfortunate, having private ways of instantiating
networking devices leads to an extremely poor user experience.

Would you like to have to train every single user in the case
where each and every driver author makes his own unique way
of configuring his hardware?