Re: rtnetlink interface state monitoring problems.

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:

quoted

If not, it probably time for someone to write a generic notification
scheme via netlink.

How generic?  I need to pay some attention to cleaning up the next version
of the link-changes via netlink patch that was discussed last week or the
week before.

The patch posted by Stefan seems good to me and ready to merge.

What kind of generic are you thinking about? :)

netlink is a messaging system; so what i am thinking is creating
a event notifier for other devices other than network devices.
Something other non-network devices could use (eg bluetooth).
Given that netlink packetizes the data, this facilitates a distributed
control type of environment.

cheers,
jamal