From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Benc Subject: Re: [RFC] Alternative hidden netwirk device interface Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:26:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20070131192647.42d87c10@griffin.suse.cz> References: <20070129184707.885764375.midnight@suse.cz> <20070129102814.6385ad2d@freekitty> <20070129140958.0cf6880f@freekitty> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , David Miller To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:37983 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030502AbXAaS04 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:26:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070129140958.0cf6880f@freekitty> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:09:58 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Change to allow register_netdevice() to be called with a blank name. > If name is blank, it is not put in name hash list, and doesn't > show up in /sys or /proc What about things like neigh_sysctl_register which expects nonempty dev name or rtnetlink_event which sends a RTM_NEWLINK event (I doubt that listeners are prepared for nonempty dev name)? Also, if the interface has ifindex assigned it is accessible from user space (although it's unlikely anybody would call anything on it) - what should be the correct result of e.g. SIOCGIFNAME? Thanks, Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs