From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:32:13 +0000 Subject: Re: Network hotplug semantics 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 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel