From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 18:05:52 +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 > The situation on Red Hat is that ifdown is used to bring down the > network interface; ... or hardware level actions like usb disconnect and cardbus eject. > 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. Actually for the 2.5 series I'd like to see someone look at some of these issue some more ... there's inconsistency in how the various network interfaces behave, as shown by all the name-based special cases. History ... :) - Dave _______________________________________________ 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