From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Thomas Ogrisegg <tom-lkml@lkml.fnord.at>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev/uevent
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:54:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060222175408.GA27645@sorel.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060222083751.GA12873@rescue.iwoars.net>
* Thomas Ogrisegg (tom-lkml@lkml.fnord.at) wrote:
> Is there currently any possibility for a program to get notified when
> a netdevice link becomes ready (or the opposite)? I don't see any interface
> (besides polling /sys).
Yes, there's a netlink socket that already communicates these changes.
Routing daemons typically consume this information. The netdev notifier
chain should end up generating these events via rtmsg_ifinfo.
thanks,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-21 23:48 Thomas Ogrisegg
2006-02-22 0:17 ` Greg KH
2006-02-22 8:37 ` Thomas Ogrisegg
2006-02-22 17:53 ` Greg KH
2006-02-22 17:54 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2006-02-22 22:37 Stefan Rompf
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