netplug [was Re: Automatically bringing ethernet interfaces up when the cableis connected]

[Bill Nottingham]

Bryan O'Sullivan (bos at serpentine.com) said: 
> On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 09:15, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > What's been discussed is the kernel natively exporting these
> > interfaces over dbus, and handling them that way.
> 
> Who's this been discussed with?  I think, from experience, that the
> networking maintainers would have a fit if you tried to get them to talk
> dbus.  I can even outline the course of the flamage for you: "use
> netlink sockets, they're the one true way".

That's actually how the informationis getting to dbus.
Arjan was looking at this at one point; there's a dbus patch
in his 2.6 kernel package.

Bill