network devices generating uevents?
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RFC 1/1 network devices generating uevents?
Perhaps the following would make it easier for applications to track network device events without having to use netlink. Compile tested only so far. The implementation is almost trivial...
net/core/Makefile +1 -0
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN) += pktgen.o obj-$(CONFIG_NETPOLL) += netpoll.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DMA) += user_dma.o obj-$(CONFIG_FIB_RULES) += fib_rules.o +obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG) += uevent.o
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David Miller
maintainerFrom: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:46:59 -0800
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Perhaps the following would make it easier for applications to track network device events without having to use netlink. Compile tested only so far. The implementation is almost trivial...
I'm fine with this, what do others think?
Quoted 9 lines · David Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:46:59 -0800Quoted 3 lines
Perhaps the following would make it easier for applications to track network device events without having to use netlink. Compile tested only so far. The implementation is almost trivial...
I'm fine with this, what do others think?
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Looks fine to me, thanks to Stephen for taking my suggestion and running with it.
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Cheers, Jeff