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

Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-10T15:08:23Z

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:41:27AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 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.

Rusty, just to verify: who shall be queueing this up?