netdev - Re: sky2 hangs

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Date:	Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:19:01 +0100
From:	Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@...nzmann.de>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
Subject: Re: sky2 hangs

Hello Stephen,

> It was intentional in 2.6 to allow interfaces to be hot-removed.
> Remember with Internet protocols there is no hard binding (normally)
> between address and device and connections should not go down if link
> fails.

of course. That makes sense. I just wondered when the change in mind
happened. And actually I like this behaviour.

> > With that everything works. If somone is interested in my userland
> > watchdog, just send me an E-Mail.

> Hopefully, it won't be necessary for long.

So do I.

        Thomas
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