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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: /sys: Network device status: link; Hard disks?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:30:28 -0700
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You probably just want to expose the state of netif_carrier_ok (and netif_running).
Doing it in net-sysfs.c is trivial.  I was hoping someone else would learn something
and do it for me.