On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > Le 28/11/2018 à 22:48, Andrew Lunn a écrit : > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:12:56PM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > >> The userspace may need to control the carrier state. > > > > Hi Nicolas > Hi Andrew, > > > > > Could you explain your user case a bit more. > > > > Are you running a routing daemon on top of the interface, and want it > > to reroute when the carrier goes down? > Sort of, we have a daemon that monitors the app and may re-route the traffic > to > a secondary app if needed.
O.K, this sounds sensible. It is often useful to explain the use case for changes like this. People try to do crazy things sometimes. Thanks Andrew