Re: [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan'

From: Kay Sievers <redacted>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:34:11 +0200

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

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From: Doug Goldstein <redacted>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:53:57 -0500

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Sets the sysfs device_type to 'vlan' for udev. This makes it easier for
applications that query network information via udev to identify vlans
instead of using strrchr().

Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <redacted>

You're extremely misguided.  This change, in fact, makes it ten times
harder for such applications to query such devices.

That makes not much sense, really. Every new interface would fall into
that category. At least I can't see any mis-guidance here. The other
devtypes for the major netif types are not that much older.

Only interfaces which provide a facility available in another way
fall into this category.

Thanks for the scarecrow, but no.