On 21/01/12 09:18, Lee Essen wrote:
> 
> On 20 Jan 2012, at 23:47, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> 
>> I'd sure like to see netlink being used to communicate speed/carrier changes 
>> up into userspace.
>>
> 
> Unfortunately there's absolutely no netlink support in the lantiq driver and 
> I don't think any of that info is available elsewhere, I would have thought 
> trying to add a netlink capability would be a bit extreme? (and probably well 
> outside my capability) … and that would then need to be done for every 
> subsequent DSL driver to maintain standardisation.
> 
> There is an ioctl interface, which also works without the daemon running, 
> which I did consider, but my thought was that this would require an extra 
> binary to maintain (unless there's a simple lua ioctl interface, but I 
> couldn't find one) and would have a lot less transparency than a script -- 
> but I'm happy to knock something up to make use of this if it's considered a 
> better approach.
> 

as far as i can tell the patch looks fine.


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