Re: Shaper driver in drivers/net/shaper.c

[Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>]

>   How do I provide an ioctl interface to the virtual devices which allows 
> creation, deletion, configuration of these devices when i *havent* yet 
> created/registered even a single virtual device?

Well observed. The answer is there isn't a mechanism for doing it. You
either register a char device or a "fake" master network device that
supports "make me a new one of these" ioctls
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