On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 16:45 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:06:25 +0200 > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Jeff Kirsher > > <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> wrote: > >> From: Gangfeng Huang <gangfeng.hu...@ni.com> > > > >> This patch create a character device for Intel I210 Ethernet > controller, > > > > wait, do we want L2 network driver to create char devices > > > >> it can be used for developing Audio/Video Bridging > applications,Industrial > >> Ethernet applications which require precise timing control over > frame > >> transmission, or test harnesses for measuring system latencies and > sampling > >> events. > > > > for various reasons such as the above? > > This is definitely not the direction to go for such a facility. > Character devices make no sense at all, and are an invitation for > ad-hoc user interfaces for what should be a generic and clean > facility. > > There is no reason we cannot provide this facility with extensions > of traditional networking APIs such as netlink or recvmsg/sendmsg > over a raw or AF_PACKET socket. > > If there has been a lot of work, time and effort put into this > character device solution then that's too bad. Because anything that > ends up being user facing should have been proposed here on netdev > from the start. > > I'm not applying this, no way.
Thanks Dave, I will drop this and the associated patches from the series.
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