From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Stezenbach Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:02:51 +0000 Subject: Q: netdev: generate kobject uevent on network events. Message-Id: <20091209170251.GA11650@sig21.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi Stephen, about a year ago you posted a patch which allows to manage network hotplug via udev (or busybox mdev), which is useful for low-end embedded platforms that don't want to run ifplugd. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/13386 The patch still works with 2.6.32. Can it get merged or were there any issues with it? It seems the discussion just stopped and the patch was forgotten... Johannes From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Stezenbach Subject: Q: netdev: generate kobject uevent on network events. Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:02:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20091209170251.GA11650@sig21.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from bar.sig21.net ([80.81.252.164]:60192 "EHLO bar.sig21.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753346AbZLIRCr (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:02:47 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Stephen, about a year ago you posted a patch which allows to manage network hotplug via udev (or busybox mdev), which is useful for low-end embedded platforms that don't want to run ifplugd. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/13386 The patch still works with 2.6.32. Can it get merged or were there any issues with it? It seems the discussion just stopped and the patch was forgotten... Johannes