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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: /sys/class/net/eth?/carrier and uevents
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Em Seg 29 Mai 2006 18:33, Arjan van de Ven escreveu:
> > I added the 'carrier' attribute initially but never considered udev at
> > the time. But I can certainly see how it could be useful.
> > I'll take a look at adding a hotplug event when I get some spare time
> > (probably some time next week) - or perhaps someone else will beat me
> > to it :)
>
> there is a netlink event already though... is this really worth the
> duplication?

IMHO the ability to substitute a daemon with a simple udev rule, together with 
the benefit of notification by d-bus to the user interface (say KDE) makes it 
worth.

Regards,
Joćo.