Re: Patch: Backport of link state notification to 2.4.20

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Stefan Rompf wrote:
>
> > Hi David,
> >
> > attached is the recent backport of link state notification for the
> > stable kernel series. The feature is optional and can be configured away
> > to nothing, and tested on several systems.
> It might be a backport, but I haven't seen a 2.5.x version posted in a 
> while.  If this is going into the stable series, it should already be 
> merged in 2.5.x at the same time, if not first.


...and of course this email arrives immediately in my inbox ;-)

Which leads to the question:  why CONFIG_LINKWATCH in 2.4 but not 2.5?

Let's do the same in both kernels unless there is a good reason not to...