From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 9: 8:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ada.eu.org (marvin.enst.fr [137.194.161.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3A637B404; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:08:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by ada.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 916131909A; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:07:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by trillian.enst.fr (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8DFE260; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:06:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:06:45 +0100 To: Robert Watson Cc: Josef Karthauser , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, n_hibma@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Link up/down events References: <20010110155134.B524@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:10:35AM -0500 From: Samuel Tardieu Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-WWW: http://www.rfc1149.net/sam X-Mail-Processing: Sam's procmail tools X-ICQ: 21547599 X-Sam-Laptop: yes Message-Id: <2001-01-10-18-06-45+trackit+sam@inf.enst.fr> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10/01, Robert Watson wrote: | Presumably at some point in the stack, that notification is translated | from a hardware event, which might be associated with devd in some manner | (and possibly also exposed there). This is the ideal situation. The other one being that the status can be read, which would require some polling to monitor the link status. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message