devd/devctl

Suleiman Souhlal refugee at vt.edu
Fri Sep 12 18:26:10 PDT 2003


Hello all,

	I was wondering if it would be a good idea to modify devd and devctl for them to handle other events than attaching and detaching devices.. For example, they could be used to mark a network interface as down, when the network cable is pulled out, and run dhclient when it is put back in. I think there are other applications too.

It would be a pretty cool thing to have, especially on laptops, but I don't really know how complex something like this would be to implement.

-Suleiman Souhlal



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