Re: [RESEND PATCH] virtio-net: init link state correctly

Rusty Russell
2010-11-07T23:11:27Z

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:17:18 pm Jason Wang wrote:
> For device that supports VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS, there's no need to
> assume the link is up and we need to call nerif_carrier_off() before
> querying device status, otherwise we may get wrong operstate after
> diver was loaded because the link watch event was not fired as
> expected.
>
> For device that does not support VIRITO_NET_F_STATUS, we could not get
> its status through virtnet_update_status() and what we can only do is
> always assuming the link is up.
>
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Thanks!
Rusty.