From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: [patch net-next-2.6 0/2] net: allow to change carrier via sysfs Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:46:46 +0200 Message-ID: <1314715608-978-1-git-send-email-jpirko@redhat.com> Cc: davem@davemloft.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, shemminger@vyatta.com To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43220 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754280Ab1H3Oqy (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:46:54 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: As suggested by Ben Hutchings I made "carrier" attribute writeable. With this patchset one can set carrier on/off on dummy. Might by also handy to implement this for other devices. Jiri Pirko (2): net: allow to change carrier via sysfs dummy: implement carrier change drivers/net/dummy.c | 10 ++++++++++ include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 ++++ net/core/dev.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ net/core/net-sysfs.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 4 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) -- 1.7.6