Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 02:22:17PM CET, han...@stressinduktion.org wrote: >On 03.02.2016 16:17, Daniel Borkmann wrote: >>On 02/03/2016 02:33 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>>Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:31:33PM CET, bro...@redhat.com wrote: >>>>On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:47:56 +0100 >>>>Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: >>>>>From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> >>[...] >>>>>It is available here: >>>>>https://github.com/jpirko/devlink >>>> >>>>IHMO this very short command name "dl" is not an advantage. It is >>>>simply too unspecific and short for a good Google search. E.g. when >>>>searching for good examples for using "dl". I think "devlink" would be >>>>better. If you like short commands do: alias dl="devlink" >>> >>>I was thinking about using "devlink". Decided to go with shortened >>>version so this is in-line with "ip". But you have a point. >> >>Btw, if you add this tool into iproute2 (which would be preferred), then >>probably dl should be ok (and easier retrievable in that relation). > >This doesn't seem to be too much related to networking? Why can't something >like this be in sysfs?
It is related to networking quite bit. There has been couple of iteration of this, including sysfs and configfs implementations. There has been a consensus reached that this should be done by netlink. I believe netlink is really the best for this purpose. Sysfs is not a good idea.
