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Re: patch for common networking error messages

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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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