From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Nico Schottelius <nico-mutt@schottelius.org>
Cc: linux.nics@intel.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100]
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:10:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D492531.9030905@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020731212426.GA3342@schottelius.org
Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I recently tried the e100 driver and was happy that it reports
> if there is a connection and speed and so on.
>
> But should these informations not be reported through /proc-fs ?
> I think this would make it easier for programs to monitor connection
> status. We could even have a small red/green light in the KDE panel
> to display connection status for different cards.
Thou shalt not add to the junk collection that is procfs :)
Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available
through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have
basically been implemented.
Until then, ioctls :)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-01 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-31 21:24 network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100] Nico Schottelius
2002-08-01 12:00 ` Gianni Tedesco
2002-08-01 12:10 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-08-01 17:42 ` John Levon
2002-08-02 0:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-02 19:19 ` Greg KH
2002-08-04 20:12 ` Nico Schottelius
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