Re: /sys/class/net/eth?/carrier and uevents

[Jesper Juhl]

On 29/05/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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