Re: [PATCH] ppp: Add rtnl attribute IFLA_PPP_UNIT_ID for specifying ppp unit id

Guillaume Nault <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ppp,gmane.linux.network,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 09:31:09PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Better to wait. I would like hear some comments / review on this patch
> if this is the correct approach as it adds a new API/ABI for userspace.

Personally I don't understand the use case for setting the ppp unit at
creation time. I didn't implement it on purpose when creating the
netlink interface, as I didn't have any use case.

On the other hand, adding the ppp unit in the netlink dump is probably
useful.
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