Link is up / Link is down HAL signals

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:29:30PM +0200, Michal Krenek wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2006 at 16:54:28, Matt Davey wrote:
> 
> > I'm new round here, but my guess is that HAL is suffering enough from
> > feature creep already.  Drawing a boundary around the stuff that HAL is
> > supposed to do isn't easy, but there's an obvious argument that
> > linkUp/linkDown is not a hardware event and thus is definitely not in
> > the hal domain.
> 
> I don't know much about HAL, but connecting or disconnecting network cable is 
> definitely hardware event and in my opinion HAL should notice it.

Sorry, it's in NetworkManager and will not come back to HAL. We've already been
there, and intentionally removed it. It's too complicated, and needs to cover
wireless hardware too, which only NM is capable to handle, but HAL will never be.

Kay