how to report network device errors to userspace?

[Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm curious about the proper way for a network device driver to report faults to
userspace.

The network devices don't seem to have /dev entries as a rule, so that makes it
difficult to use select/poll to alert a user app.

I haven't been able to find a standard interface for this--does nobody care
about this kind of thing?

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