From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:02:46 +0000 Subject: Re: Manage network links with hotplug? Message-Id: <20040326230246.GD31372@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:25:34PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On Thursday 25 March 2004 00:14, Greg KH wrote: > > Oops, sorry, network cable events do not generate hotplug events. I was > > thinking of network device adds and removes. You will have to use > > ethtool or netlink to detect loss of the ethernet link. > Why don't make the net drivers raise an hotplug event instead? this would be a > cleaner design... Go talk to the network driver authors :) Good luck. greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel