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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: how to report network device errors to userspace?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:50:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D10FCA4.4CDD78E9@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m34rfzq6wb.fsf@trained-monkey.org

Jes Sorensen wrote:

> Hmmm, the broader issue here is that we should aim for a generic
> interface - if netlink is the way, maybe it would be worth documenting
> it and moving towards getting it into more/all drivers.

I agree with this.

Also, if we're going to make it generic, lets plan on using it for stuff other
than just ethernet--I'd like to have it available for atm/sonet cards as well.

Chris


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      reply	other threads:[~2002-06-19 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-19 18:39 how to report network device errors to userspace? Chris Friesen
2002-06-19 20:21 ` Donald Becker
2002-06-19 21:19   ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-19 21:36     ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-19 21:44       ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-19 21:54         ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-20  2:44           ` James Morris
2002-06-20  2:50             ` jamal
2002-06-19 21:45       ` Jes Sorensen
2002-06-19 21:50         ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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