From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764251AbXIMEOU (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:14:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751732AbXIMEOK (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:14:10 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:40002 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750875AbXIMEOJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:14:09 -0400 Message-ID: <46E8B909.2050201@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:14:01 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan-Bernd Themann CC: netdev , Christoph Raisch , Jan-Bernd Themann , linux-kernel , linux-ppc , Marcus Eder , Thomas Klein , Stefan Roscher 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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