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| Subject: | Re: patch for common networking error messages |
| From: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:09:30 -0700 (PDT) |
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:08:59 -0700 Read the hotplug thread to see how Linus said, he will never add a binary event daemon interface. Funny, rtnetlink is exactly this and it is in the tree :-) Every networking configuration event is transmitted over rtnetlink sockets to all listeners, in a fixed binary format. What Linus doesn't want is this for configuration events, ie. things like "device appears" not "my ethernet burped" |
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