Re: [PATCH] add netdev led trigger

From: Eric Cooper
Date: Wed Nov 17 2010 - 15:06:20 EST


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:58:43PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I was hoping you'd comment on the ABI itself, too. It uses
>
> echo "foo bar baz" > file
>
> to enable/disable specific events to be "displayed". More traditional
> interface would be
>
> echo disable > file_foo

The main arguments for using the single "mode" file are:
1. that's how it was implemented for OpenWrt, and there's a fair
amount of userland (web admin tools, etc.) that groks it
2. it's only specifying a set of three possible values -- separate
files seem like overkill

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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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