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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:45:34 +0000
Subject: Re: link up and down
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:51:47PM +0530, ratheesh k wrote:
> the linux kernel is running on an embedded box ... so if i can achieve
> this using hotplug2 , i can save a lot of flash by not intstalling
> ethtool ..
> is there any way

You are really using hotplug2 for a device?  Are you insane?  That's
very old, unsupported, and buggy code that was a totally bad idea when I
wrote it.

Please do not use it, it will break and cause bad things to happen.

And no, there are no hotplug events for link up/down, use ethtool like
it is designed for.

thanks,

greg k-h