On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:51:47PM +0530, ratheesh k wrote: > the linux kernel is running on an embedded box ... so if i can achieve > this using hotplug2 , i can save a lot of flash by not intstalling > ethtool .. > is there any way You are really using hotplug2 for a device? Are you insane? That's very old, unsupported, and buggy code that was a totally bad idea when I wrote it. Please do not use it, it will break and cause bad things to happen. And no, there are no hotplug events for link up/down, use ethtool like it is designed for. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html