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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:10:25 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Nico Schottelius <nico-mutt@schottelius.org>
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Subject: Re: network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100]
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Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I recently tried the e100 driver and was happy that it reports
> if there is a connection and speed and so on.
> 
> But should these informations not be reported through /proc-fs ?
> I think this would make it easier for programs to monitor connection
> status. We could even have a small red/green light in the KDE panel
> to display connection status for different cards.


Thou shalt not add to the junk collection that is procfs :)

Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available 
through a filesystem.  When that happens, your request will have 
basically been implemented.

Until then, ioctls :)

	Jeff




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