From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Didier Pallard <didier.pallard@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tun: implement carrier change
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:36:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181129163609.GD1501@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3970d6d0-b6d9-c123-0055-6158191dd674@6wind.com>
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 28/11/2018 à 22:48, Andrew Lunn a écrit :
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:12:56PM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> >> The userspace may need to control the carrier state.
> >
> > Hi Nicolas
> Hi Andrew,
>
> >
> > Could you explain your user case a bit more.
> >
> > Are you running a routing daemon on top of the interface, and want it
> > to reroute when the carrier goes down?
> Sort of, we have a daemon that monitors the app and may re-route the traffic to
> a secondary app if needed.
O.K, this sounds sensible.
It is often useful to explain the use case for changes like
this. People try to do crazy things sometimes.
Thanks
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-30 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-28 18:12 [PATCH net-next] tun: implement carrier change Nicolas Dichtel
2018-11-28 21:48 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-11-29 11:06 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2018-11-29 16:36 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-12-01 1:16 ` David Miller
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