Subject: Re: Changes to PM layer break userspace
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:50:24 +0100
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> Seriously. How many pieces of userspace-visible functionality have 
> recently been removed without there being any sort of alternative?

There IS an alternative, you're using it for networking:
 
You *down the interface*.

If there's a NIC that doesn't support that let us (or preferably netdev)
know and it'll get fixed quickly I'm sure.

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