RE: [PATCH] Hyperv: Trigger DHCP renew after host hibernation

Dexuan Cui
2014-08-08T08:12:23Z

> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 11:32 AM
> > Hi Richard and all,
> >
> > IMO the most feasible and need-the-least-change solution may be:
> > the hyperv network VSC driver passes the event
> > RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE to the udev daemon?
> >
> > In this way, every distro only needs to add a udev rule, which should
> > be simple.
>
> No, don't do that, again, act like any other network device, drop the
> link and bring it up when it comes back.
>
> greg k-h

Hi Greg,
Thanks for the comment!

Do you mean tearing down the net device and re-creating it (by
register_netdev() and unregister_netdev)?

Sorry, I'm new to network drivers. I'll have to try this to see if this
works or not, though I suppose it would work.

-- Dexuan