From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ifdown on unregister for debian system
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 17:44:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-101042550524502@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-101042335418693@msgid-missing>
Fumitoshi UKAI (ukai@debian.or.jp) said:
> > This patch:
> > a) refers to a debian-specific package
> > b) refers to debian-specific ifdown behavior
> >
> > Is there any chance it could be cleaned up, or kept as a debian-specifc
> > diff?
>
> debian's ifup/ifdown uses /etc/network/ifstate for status database.
> How about checking the /etc/network/ifstate file existance to run ifdown?
That could work, I suppose.
The situation on Red Hat is that ifdown is used to bring down the
network interface; if you've gotten the unregister event from the
driver, that means the network interface is already down, so running
ifdown doesn't gain you much.
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-07 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-07 17:07 ifdown on unregister for debian system Fumitoshi UKAI
2002-01-07 17:36 ` Bill Nottingham
2002-01-07 17:41 ` Fumitoshi UKAI
2002-01-07 17:44 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2002-01-07 17:59 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 18:05 ` David Brownell
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