From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Rompf Subject: Re: Patch: Idea for RFC2863 conform OperStatus Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:42:22 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3DAABBAE.79E22EB6@isg.de> References: <200210132204.CAA09385@sex.inr.ac.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jamal Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Alexey, Jamal, the first version of this patch just added the feature to distribute state changes created by netif_carrier_on()/_off() inside the kernel and to netlink via netdev_state_change(). This is still the part most important to me - not only in 2.5, but also as a 2.4 backport. I don't think RFC2863 state keeping makes much sense if we cannot forward the results to userspace. So if you are happy with keeping the current semantics, but using the more sophisticated implementation of forwarding worked out last weekend, I'll be happy to provide a new patch (also adressing Jamal's nitpicks). Just agree on one way. Cheers, Stefan