Re: [Linux-ATM-General] Sync status in userspace

[Philip P. <phi...@re...>]

  On 9/12/10 3:55 AM, Vincent Zweije wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:36:24PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
> ||  On a side-note: does ATM even advertise "carrier" (such as sync on a DSL
> ||  link) in any detectable way to user-space?
> ||
> ||  I'd like to have the pppoe and pppoatm plugins bomb out if carrier is down
> ||  on the DSL link you're trying to use them with.
>
> I think a few weeks ago I saw a patch fly by on linux-kernel on signaling
> sync status from the DSL driver to an upper layer, with the remark that
> it would be useful to userspace. There's something there.
>
> Ciao.                                                            Vincent.
>

I'm not on linux-kernel but I'll check gmane... Thanks.

Actually, just checked but couldn't find it.  If you remember who wrote it or what the subject was, that would help a lot...