From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 17:36:05 +0000 Subject: Re: ifdown on unregister for debian system Message-Id: 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 Fumitoshi UKAI (ukai@debian.or.jp) said: > On debian system, ifup/ifdown keep status of interface status (up/down) > in ifstate database, so ifdown is necessary when network interface > unregistered. Unless ifdown is called, next registering net device > will fail because it was already up in ifstate database. 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? Bill _______________________________________________ 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