From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net (srv5.dvmed.net [207.36.208.214]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B258DDD0D for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:14:13 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <46E8B909.2050201@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:14:01 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan-Bernd Themann Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2][RESEND] ehea: propagate physical port state References: <200709071230.18395.ossthema@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <200709071230.18395.ossthema@de.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Thomas Klein , Jan-Bernd Themann , netdev , linux-kernel , linux-ppc , Christoph Raisch , Marcus Eder , Stefan Roscher List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > Introduces a module parameter to decide whether the physical > port link state is propagated to the network stack or not. > It makes sense not to take the physical port state into account > on machines with more logical partitions that communicate > with each other. This is always possible no matter what the physical > port state is. Thus eHEA can be considered as a switch there. > > Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann applied 1-2