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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: marcel@holtmann.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IFF_RUNNING without carrier after reboot
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:36:25 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081214.233625.36638431.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LC7s0-0007qm-T3@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:28:00 +1100

> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > The RUNNING state has no connection to link presence.
> > 
> > It just means that the device has been brought up by a
> > user configuration command like the ifconfig you ran.
> > 
> > It really means nothing else.
> 
> Well RUNNING did use to indicate carrier state.  In fact I didn't
> even know that it had changed until this email :)
> 
> This is the changeset which did it:

Yes, it was a bug and we fixed it more than 2 years ago.
Thanks for confirming :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-15  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-14  3:28 IFF_RUNNING without carrier after reboot Marcel Holtmann
2008-12-15  6:29 ` David Miller
2008-12-15  7:28   ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-15  7:36     ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-27 16:32       ` Lennart Sorensen

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