From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: "Nico Schümann" <dev@nico22.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network link detection
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:38:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D700A5B.2000807@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303193006.GA29129@svh.nico22.de>
On 03/03/2011 01:30 PM, Nico Schümann wrote:
> Dear kernel developers,
>
> currently I'm looking for a way to find out whether a network link went
> down or up. Of course there is mii-tool, which can watch devices, too.
>
> Unfortunately, I was not able to find out a way to be notified about
> link status changes asynchronously. Is there a way? I'm looking for
> something like "inotify for link states".
You might look at whether you could write a kernel module to register
for NETDEV_CHANGE notifications and pass that back to userspace.
Chris
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Chris Friesen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-03 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 19:30 Network link detection Nico Schümann
2011-03-03 20:03 ` Jesper Juhl
2011-03-03 20:45 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-03-03 21:38 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2011-03-03 22:01 ` David Miller
2011-03-03 22:29 ` Nico Schümann
2011-03-07 19:49 ` Dan Williams
2011-03-03 23:54 ` Chris Friesen
2011-03-03 22:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-04 6:35 ` Nico Schümann
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