Announcing ethernet link state changes via route socket

[Hasso Tepper]

Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> I think your changes do affect all mii aware NICs (almost all modern NICs
> :)

So, I don't have modern NICs, seems ;(.
 
> I think bridge's link state change support has already been in place,
> but is commented out.

I will look at bridge stuff later probably.
 
> For current vlan implementation, I am afraid you will have to go
> through all vlan ifaces to locate vlan ifaces backed by the specific
> state changing NIC.

Let's change the VLAN implementation as well then. VLAN stuff is close to
top in my priority list anyway.
 
> BTW, this patch looks OK to me.

Thanks.


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Hasso Tepper