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