[ECOS] Event driven ethernet status change

[Matt Jerdonek]

Hi Folks,

I need a way for an ethernet driver (but specifically
the powerpc/fec driver) to inform an application of a
loss and restoral of ethernet carrier.

If possible, I want avoid having the application poll
the driver for its status.  Instead, I'd like driver
to inform the application of status changes.

It looks like I can call if_down(...) or if_up(...)
from the ethernet driver, then, in the application,
listen on the routing socket for status changes.  Is
this a reasonable approach?  Is there a better way?

Thanks,
-- Matt

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