Re: patch for common networking error messages

David S. Miller
2003-06-17T16:00:08Z

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:08:59 -0700

Read the hotplug thread to see how Linus
said, he will never add a binary event daemon interface.

Funny, rtnetlink is exactly this and it is in the tree :-)

Every networking configuration event is transmitted over
rtnetlink sockets to all listeners, in a fixed binary
format.

What Linus doesn't want is this for configuration events,
ie. things like "device appears" not "my ethernet burped"