From: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:14:40 -0800

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:51:53 +0100
Marcel Holtmann [off-list ref] wrote:

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It is easier for some applications to deal with text based interfaces
like uevent, rather than using netlink to listen for events.

Note, this does not deal with network namespaces but that is a generic
problem that already exists with kobjects (see rename events).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>

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do we wanna copy just what ifconfig shows or do we might be a more  
intelligent and have separate variables like RUNNING=1 etc.?

Was arbitrary choice to just use same flags as existing ifconfig.
What ever feels best I guess...

So what do folks want me to do here?  Should I put Stephen's
latest patch in, or do we want to make some kind of flags change?