On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 04:14:26PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote: > We want to avoid sysfs in general, all of networking config and stats > are moving to netlink. It is better controlled and structured for such > changes, also provides nice interfaces for automatic type checks etc.
Aha, didn't know that. Thanks! :) > Also (but a minor reason) there is no tree/entity in sysfs for the vlans > where to add this. It will either have to be a file which does some > format string hack (like us currently) or will need to add new tree for > them which I'd really like to avoid for the bridge. Yup, I did some ugly sysfs patches to read queriers per VLAN like that, just for some basic feedback. Really awful, although easy to debug because of it being a simple file ... (I guess I'll have to make friends withe Netlink.) > [..] > Also after my vlan rhastable change, we have per-vlan context even today > (e.g. per-vlan stats use it) so we'll just extend that. Interesting, this I'll have to look at in more detail!
