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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:45:09 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, rwatson@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c if.h route.h rtsock.c src/share/man/man4 route.4 src/sbin/route route.c 
Message-ID:  <37654.1011692709@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Jan 2002 10:38:58 %2B0100." <xzpbsfmrah9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 

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In message <xzpbsfmrah9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
>Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:08:46PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>> > Could drivers that don't get asynchronous notification of media status
>> > changes, poll the media status once a second?
>> How this is better than polling media status of a single interested
>> device from userland once a second?
>
>1) simpler to implement in the kernel
>
>2) you avoid polling devices that are capable of asynchronous
>   notification

What really bugs me in this area is that ethernet drivers which
can sense the cable being unplugged doesn't yank their routes
when it happens...

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