Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:10:25 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100] |
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Nico Schottelius wrote: > Hello! > > I recently tried the e100 driver and was happy that it reports > if there is a connection and speed and so on. > > But should these informations not be reported through /proc-fs ? > I think this would make it easier for programs to monitor connection > status. We could even have a small red/green light in the KDE panel > to display connection status for different cards.
Thou shalt not add to the junk collection that is procfs :)
Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have basically been implemented.
Until then, ioctls :)
Jeff
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