From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751365AbWE2Vv3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 17:51:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751346AbWE2Vv2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 17:51:28 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.235]:58323 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751325AbWE2Vv2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 17:51:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VYzMyxRS1l4fblgmJYgUTBoPYMqonBRRq4IBAKuM6pJ+Rr+0lNchXUZz+sUpbvPkbxxd0VaxcWsv2homHp5MVGK6gMkOzEoD+Qwkd05U2c+6sumq2JL4r8sALBVyiPTXA0HUH+gm+Qz6xXvVfbX9epslfIpg6H+ygCFuaVo2qzs= Message-ID: <9a8748490605291451y2c6c2a8bs621ada64fafd6a62@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 23:51:27 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Subject: Re: /sys/class/net/eth?/carrier and uevents Cc: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Luis_Meloni_Assirati?=" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1148938395.3291.104.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200605291807.42725.assirati@nonada.if.usp.br> <9a8748490605291429h32f67b53k757d6e4a0cec7675@mail.gmail.com> <1148938395.3291.104.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 29/05/06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > 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? > Dunno, perhaps not. Have not looked at it yet. If it's simple to add and there won't be any confusion for userspace as to what event to react to, then it might be a nice little thing to have. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html