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From: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: generate kobject uevent on network state transitions
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:08:32 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 00:03, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> 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>

Works fine here.

Thanks,
Kay