From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: marcel@holtmann.org, bhutchings@solarflare.com,
kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: generate kobject uevent on network state transitions
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:09:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081125.010943.205685748.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081124201440.0e4d61cc@extreme>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:14:40 -0800
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:51:53 +0100
> Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
>
> > > It is easier for some applications to deal with text based interfaces
> > > like uevent, rather than using netlink to listen for events.
> > >
> > > Note, this does not deal with network namespaces but that is a generic
> > > problem that already exists with kobjects (see rename events).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
...
> > do we wanna copy just what ifconfig shows or do we might be a more
> > intelligent and have separate variables like RUNNING=1 etc.?
>
> Was arbitrary choice to just use same flags as existing ifconfig.
> What ever feels best I guess...
So what do folks want me to do here? Should I put Stephen's
latest patch in, or do we want to make some kind of flags change?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-25 9:09 UTC|newest]
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2008-11-24 19:45 ` [PATCH] netdev: generate kobject uevent on network events Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-24 19:55 ` Kay Sievers
2008-11-24 20:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-25 8:39 ` David Miller
2008-11-24 20:06 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-11-24 23:03 ` [PATCH] netdev: generate kobject uevent on network state transitions Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-25 3:08 ` Kay Sievers
2008-11-25 3:51 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-11-25 4:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-25 9:09 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-11-26 5:24 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-11-26 12:09 ` Kay Sievers
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