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Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 2014 08:11:20 +0000
From:	Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Yue Zhang (OSTC DEV)" <yuezha@...rosoft.com>,
	"olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org" 
	<driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Shao <huishao@...rosoft.com>,
	"Haiyang Zhang" <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Hyperv: Trigger DHCP renew after host hibernation

> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@...uxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 11:32 AM
> > Hi Richard and all,
> >
> > IMO the most feasible and need-the-least-change solution may be:
> > the hyperv network VSC driver passes the event
> > RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE to the udev daemon?
> >
> > In this way, every distro only needs to add a udev rule, which should
> > be simple.
> 
> No, don't do that, again, act like any other network device, drop the
> link and bring it up when it comes back.
> 
> greg k-h

Hi Greg,
Thanks for the comment!

Do you mean tearing down the net device and re-creating it (by
register_netdev() and unregister_netdev)?

Sorry, I'm new to network drivers. I'll have to try this to see if this
works or not, though I suppose it would work.

-- Dexuan
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