At least someone is looking at my patch. ;-)
I agree that it is not very user friendly.
My current patch just utilizes the IP address alias logic in the IP
stack. So when you do 'ifconfig ethxx:blah ipaddr up' it creates a
struct in_ifaddr which contains a ptr to the real struct net_device that
services this alias. However, from what I can tell, I cannot just
create one of these without binding an address. So the driver cannot
create the alias interface until it knows the ipaddr/netmask/etc. IE:
if you say 'ifconfig ethxx:blah up' it fails... You must supply an
address to get one of these created.
To have the cxgb3 driver create something like 'iw0', I think it would
need to create a full net_device struct. This makes the change much
more complex. But perhaps its the right thing to do...
Steve.
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