Re: Patch resubmission: RFC2863 operstatus for 2.5.50

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Pardon my dumb question, but what parts of RFC2863 require kernel
> additions over and above your link state patch?
>
> Your second patch I am less enthusiastic about than the first... :(
>
> I wonder if userspace cannot figure out ifOperStatus from existing data
> we make available?
>

Stefans curtrent patch makes the info available via netlink.
What dont you like about it Jeff? Take a quick look at RFC2863
and scan for IfAdminStatus and IfOperStatus. The modelling RFC2863
has is pretty good and thats what Stefan has followed (after we weeded
a few crappy pieces off the RFC; we discussed on netdev).

cheers,
jamal