On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I didn't receive anything but a "its too complex" in > response to my previous question, let me ask again: why are > you inventing a new sysfs interface (combined with ~15 module > parameters) instead of using the existing standard interfaces > for this?
Can you please elaborate on the standard interfaces you are referring to ? Also as Roland mentioned in the other thread, echo-ing the parameters to sysfs files is a pretty straightforward way to configure the interfaces. Users can setup configuration files to configure QLogic VNIC interfaces specifying the name of the interface, various parameters of the QLogic EVIC gateway target they want to use and a simple user level script parses the configuration file and echoes the parameters to the driver. <snip> >> +# An interface can be deleted by echoing the name of the interface to be >> deleted >> +# to delete_vnic file >> +echo -n veth1 > /sys/class/infiniband_qlgc_vnic/interfaces/delete_vnic > > > This clearly shows the advantage of being able to use echo > for configuration. >From this statement, I thought you agreed with the advantage of echo for configuration. Regards, Ram _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
