Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:53:22 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] netdev/uevent |
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:37:51AM +0100, Thomas Ogrisegg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:17:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:48:07AM +0100, Thomas Ogrisegg wrote: > > > This patch adds userspace notification for register/unregister and > > > plug/unplug events for netdevices. It calls kobject_uevent to let > > > userspace applications (via netlink-interface) know that e.g. the > > > ethernet-cable was plugged in (or plugged out) and thus the ethernet > > > device may have to be reconfigured. > [...] > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Ogrisegg <tom-lkml@lkml.fnord.at> > > Hm, I thought ethtool and netlink already handled this kind of event > > just fine. Why would you add a uevent too? > > What do you mean with "ethtool and netlink"? At least the current > release of ethtool does not seem to have any netlink support.
That should have been "or", sorry.
> Is there currently any possibility for a program to get notified when > a netdevice link becomes ready (or the opposite)? I don't see any interface > (besides polling /sys).
Try asking on the netdev mailing list, I'm sure it must come up there a lot.
thanks,
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