On 21/01/12 09:18, Lee Essen wrote: > > On 20 Jan 2012, at 23:47, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> I'd sure like to see netlink being used to communicate speed/carrier changes >> up into userspace. >> > > Unfortunately there's absolutely no netlink support in the lantiq driver and > I don't think any of that info is available elsewhere, I would have thought > trying to add a netlink capability would be a bit extreme? (and probably well > outside my capability) … and that would then need to be done for every > subsequent DSL driver to maintain standardisation. > > There is an ioctl interface, which also works without the daemon running, > which I did consider, but my thought was that this would require an extra > binary to maintain (unless there's a simple lua ioctl interface, but I > couldn't find one) and would have a lot less transparency than a script -- > but I'm happy to knock something up to make use of this if it's considered a > better approach. >
as far as i can tell the patch looks fine. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
