In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:04:29 -0800 (PST)), 
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:

> Herbert, Yoshifuji and I were just discussing the
> sysfs device attribute issue.
> 
> It's seems sane to me that if we had some kind of
> 'dirty' bit per attribute we could propagate default
> settings everywhere except where the dirty bit had
> been set.

One good event to propagate is the NETDEV_UP; if the dirty bit is
not set when the device is brought up, copy the default values to
the device.

Regards,

--yoshfuji @ Seattle
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