Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:12:13 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add handler for RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE event |
| |
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 06:57:04AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, Haiyang Zhang wrote: > > > The RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE event is received after the Hyper-V host > > sleep or hibernation. We refresh network at this time. > > > + char *argv[] = { "/etc/init.d/network", "restart", NULL }; > > What happens if that file does not exist? Dead network in the guest? > I tend to think if a VM with PV drivers goes to sleep it has to go > through the whole suspend/resume cycle, very much like the "LID closed" > event. So I think this and the other fbdev change that is floating > around is wrong.
Ah, and what about systems with no /etc/init.d/ at all (like systemd-based ones)? You can't have a kernel driver ask userspace to restart all networking connections, that seems really wrong.
greg k-h
| |