On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 18:02, Johannes Stezenbach <js@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > about a year ago you posted a patch which allows to manage > network hotplug via udev (or busybox mdev), which is useful > for low-end embedded platforms that don't want to run ifplugd. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/13386 > > The patch still works with 2.6.32. Can it get merged or > were there any issues with it? It seems the discussion > just stopped and the patch was forgotten... Can't, in some setups, these events happen at a rather high frequency? I heard of people running many hundreds of ppp interfaces on a single box acting as a DSL concentrator. They state to already have trouble handling the amount of uevents generated on such boxes just for the "add/remove" events of all the interfaces if something goes wrong with the network. If we add more for state transitions, such events would probably need to be rate-limited. In general, uevents/udev are not really suitable for high-frequency events, and if such behavior can be expected, we might better stick with the current netlink interface. Thanks, Kay -- 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
