Bug#119184: ITP: laptop-net -- Tools for supporting built-in ethernet on laptops

[Chris Hanson <cph@zurich.ai.mit.edu>]

   Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:31:52 +0100
   From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>

   Previously Chris Hanson wrote:
   > Do you have any ideas about this?

   I would expect that when you detect a mii link you could call the
   hotplug scripts from userspace as well, probably with a different
   (fake) interface name to get the right scripts executed.

Hmm...  This looks like a bit of a mess.  The standard hotplug scripts
are doing the wrong thing, and there's no clear model in which to
handle this situation.

Let me talk to the folks on linux-hotplug-devel and see if there's a
better way to do this.