network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100]
Hello!
I recently tried the e100 driver and was happy that it reports if there is a connection and speed and so on.
But should these informations not be reported through /proc-fs ? I think this would make it easier for programs to monitor connection status. We could even have a small red/green light in the KDE panel to display connection status for different cards.
The point in fact is, looking into dmesg for connection status is definitly wrong IMHO. It's neither a clean access nor easy to watch for applications.
So what do you think about /proc/net/<DEVNAME> support for status ?
As far as I can see this is partly implemented in /proc/net/wireless or in /proc/net/dev.
Adding another column in the latter would do the job, too.
Anyways, just an idea.
Hope to hear your critics,
Nico
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Quoted 9 lines · Nico Schottelius
Hello!
I recently tried the e100 driver and was happy that it reports if there is a connection and speed and so on.
But should these informations not be reported through /proc-fs ? I think this would make it easier for programs to monitor connection status. We could even have a small red/green light in the KDE panel to display connection status for different cards.
AFAIK this information is already available for ethernet cards with an MII tranciever via a bunch of ioctl()'s. Google for mii-diag.c for an example.
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Quoted 9 lines · Nico Schottelius
Hello!
I recently tried the e100 driver and was happy that it reports if there is a connection and speed and so on.
But should these informations not be reported through /proc-fs ? I think this would make it easier for programs to monitor connection status. We could even have a small red/green light in the KDE panel to display connection status for different cards.
Thou shalt not add to the junk collection that is procfs :)
Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have basically been implemented.
Until then, ioctls :)
Jeff
Quoted 3 lines · Jeff Garzik
Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have basically been implemented.
It would probably help if some of the basic code needed was wrapped in an even more "dumbed-down" API - most of the stuff in say pcihpfs is generically useful for this sort of configfs thing.
As more and more minifs's appear (they are trivially easy to write after all) we're likely to see more duplication of this code, and the resultant missing bug fix propogation
regards
john
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Quoted 6 lines · John Levon
Quoted 1 line · Jeff Garzik
Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have basically been implemented.
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It would probably help if some of the basic code needed was wrapped in an even more "dumbed-down" API - most of the stuff in say pcihpfs is generically useful for this sort of configfs thing.
As more and more minifs's appear (they are trivially easy to write after all) we're likely to see more duplication of this code, and the resultant missing bug fix propogation
Doubtful -- Al Viro created libfs.c, and understands the basic concept of avoiding code duplication :)
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Quoted 3 lines · Jeff Garzik
Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have basically been implemented.
It would probably help if some of the basic code needed was wrapped in an even more "dumbed-down" API - most of the stuff in say pcihpfs is generically useful for this sort of configfs thing.
Hm, like perhaps 'driverfs'? :)
That's where pcihpfs is going to go to, as soon as Pat makes a few more changes to the API.
thanks,
greg k-h
Jeff Garzik [Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:10:25AM -0400]:
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Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have basically been implemented.
will wait until that happy day. Hopefully this will be as soon as floppy.o works again :/
Nico
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