Re: Patch: Idea for RFC2863 conform OperStatus

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Stefan Rompf wrote:

> If we decide to go this way, we'll also need an extension to rtnetlink
> and a new ioctl to transport the information to userspace.

Before you go doing that:
IFF_RUNNING and IFF_UP are already part of the ifi_flags(struct ifinfomsg)
passed today.
How about making use of ifi_change to extend them? Alexey, would this be
proper use of ifi_change?

cheers,
jamal