Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:52 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > >>Shouldn't be a problem either. Creating the device atomically also >>prevents that anything else is setting them UP before they're fully >>configured. > > > How would you do it generically then? I'm absolutely not opposed to the > idea but for now haven't seen how to do it.
Without having thought much about it yet, roughly like this: - driver receives RTM_NEWLINK message (under rtnl) - driver allocates new device - driver initializes device based on content of RTM_NEWLINK message - driver returns Device creation won't be generic of course since only the driver knows how to do that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
