From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:33:31 -0700

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> The sysfs part of this is already in net-next as it isn't part of
> the igbvf driver it is part of igb.  It was added in over a month
> ago: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23471/
> 
> I will see what we can do to make use of a netlink interface.  I'm
> honestly not even sure if it will work well for this kind of setup
> since the VF driver won't even be running on the same OS in most
> cases.  For now the sysfs code in igb is actually quite minimal, and
> the main goal was to keep the interface as simple as possible which
> is what I have done.

I have to agree with Stephen that the way to create new links
of virtual and similar devices is to use rtnl_link.

We have very good infrastructure for this, and if I understand
things correctly iproute2 might even work with an igb using
rtnl_link with zero modifications to the tool sources.

Please fix this up, it's a very reasonable request for such
a large new piece of driver infrastructure.  And since this is
a new driver, you have no time constraints for submission either.

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