On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 06:45:49 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 08:11:20AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 11:32 AM > > > > Hi Richard and all, > > > > > > > > IMO the most feasible and need-the-least-change solution may be: > > > > the hyperv network VSC driver passes the event > > > > RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE to the udev daemon? > > > > > > > > In this way, every distro only needs to add a udev rule, which should > > > > be simple. > > > > > > No, don't do that, again, act like any other network device, drop the > > > link and bring it up when it comes back. > > > > > > greg k-h > > > > Hi Greg, > > Thanks for the comment! > > > > Do you mean tearing down the net device and re-creating it (by > > register_netdev() and unregister_netdev)? > > No, don't you have link-detect for your network device? Toggle that, I > thought patches to do this were posted a while ago... > > But if you really want to tear the whole network device down and then > back up again, sure, that would also work. > > good luck, > > greg k-h > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Call netif_carrier_off then netif_carrier_on to toggle the link detect state of netdevice. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
