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The more time passes, the more I think this is a good idea. It looks like everything (or nearly everything) supports it, wifi interfaces support it (which gives it better compatibility than ethtool/MII anyway), and it eradicates about 50 lines of low-level code. I think this would be a good newbie project; basically it just involves rewriting ethtool_lite() (in ethtool-lite.c) to read /sys/class/net/<if_name>/carrier; if you get EINVAL then the interface isn't up (bad puppy, no cookie for you) otherwise it's '1' if link, '0' otherwise. Couldn't be easier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
