Re: (Semi-random) thoughts on device tree structure and devfs

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

dyoung%pobox.com@localhost said:
> Then we can, as you suggested at the top of this thread, create the
> ether(4) pseudo-device that is analogous to audio(4).  Let us attach a
> particular ether(4) instance to an ethernet h/w instance according to
> the h/w's properties.

This looks somewhat shortsighted. "ethernet" is no interface in a
technical sense anymore. It is just perhaps a tag put at protocols
which use 48-bit MAC addresses and can be bridged to other protocols
of that kind. But then, where do draw the line? FDDI can be bridged
to ethernet as well, so would you call it "ether"?

Besides that, I don't see how this could solve any real-world problem
which a trivial shell script can't deal with.

best regards
Matthias



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