From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Patch resubmission: RFC2863 operstatus for 2.5.50 Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 19:52:57 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3DED51E9.1080408@pobox.com> References: <3DE33D6D.25B9C9B4@isg.de> <20021126.021546.91313706.davem@redhat.com> <3DED2EA9.D812C881@isg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Stefan Rompf In-Reply-To: <3DED2EA9.D812C881@isg.de> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Pardon my dumb question, but what parts of RFC2863 require kernel additions over and above your link state patch? Your second patch I am less enthusiastic about than the first... :( I wonder if userspace cannot figure out ifOperStatus from existing data we make available? Jeff