From: Jouke Witteveen <j.wittev...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 17:00:21 +0100
> Make it easy for userspace to respond to acquisition/loss of carrier. > The uevent is picked up by udev and, on systems with systemd, the > device unit of the interface announces a configuration reload. > > Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.wittev...@gmail.com> > --- > I did not want to change the commit message into a systemd-howto, but > subscribing to udev events can be done through a line like > ReloadPropagatedFrom=sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device > in a systemd unit file. I want to hear more about "why". If we have the rtnetlink message that can be listened for, userspace ought to use that. That's what it is there for.
