Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> writes:

quoted text
> Octavian Purdila wrote:
>> On Tuesday 16 February 2010 22:08:13 you wrote:
>>>> Something like bellow?
>>>>
>>>> # set bits 8080 and 1666
>>>> $echo 8080 1666-1666 > /proc
>>>>
>>>> #reset bit 1666
>>>> $echo 8080 > /proc
>>>>
>>>> #reset whole bitmap
>>>> $echo > /proc
>>> Yes. So something like that.
>>>
>>> I think I would use commas instead of spaces as that is more traditional.
>
>
> Why this is better than the current version?
>
> For the single port case, currently we use:
>
> echo +8080 > /xxxx #set
> echo -8080 > /xxxx #clear
>
> Now we will use:
>
> echo 8080 > /xxxx #set
> echo 8080 > /xxxx #clear

No.

quoted text
> I don't think the latter is better...
>
> For the multi-port case, yes, we should accept 'echo 8080,10000 >/xxxx'.

What I was envisioning was:

echo 8080 > /xxx # set the bitmap to 8080
echo 8080,10000 > /xxx # add 10000 to the bitmap
echo 8080 > /xxxx # remove 10000 from the bitmap.

That is when you set it you enter the entire set every time, treating
the entire set as a single value.

Eric
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html