Re: [PATCH v13 17/17] net: stream: add QAPI events to report connection state

[Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/21/22 07:48, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > The netdev reports NETDEV_STREAM_CONNECTED event when the backend
> > is connected, and NETDEV_STREAM_DISCONNECTED when it is disconnected.
> Use cases?
This is asked by Stefano Brivio to allow libvirt to detect if connection to passt is lost 
and to restart passt.
I have also a patch to add a "reconnect=seconds" option, but I didn't want to add it to 
this series.
> Could similar event signalling be useful for other kinds of netdev
> backends?
I was wondering, but it becomes more complicated to be generic.

Thanks,
Laurent