From: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network hotplug semantics
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:32:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98162109225327@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98161573514987@msgid-missing>
On Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2001 08:03, Brad Hards wrote:
> Situation: USB ethernet adapter (in my case, a KLSI one).
>
> Should the interface (e.g. ethX) be signalled when the device is plugged
> in to the USB port, or when the electrical connection of the 10BaseT
> wire is made? What counts as "plugged" in this case?
Quite a lot of ethernet controllers can't tell you whether a wire is
connected. For other things like wireless networking the destinction is hard
to make. Thus to keep things unified, as soon as the card is up.
Regards
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-08 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-08 7:02 Network hotplug semantics Matthew Dharm
2001-02-08 7:03 ` Brad Hards
2001-02-08 8:32 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2001-02-09 0:28 ` David Brownell
2001-02-09 1:27 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-10 3:46 ` Brad Hards
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