Link is up / Link is down HAL signals

Michal Krenek mikos at sg1.cz
Fri May 5 08:29:30 PDT 2006


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.

Michal Krenek (Mikos)


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