From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: IFF_RUNNING without carrier after reboot Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:36:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20081214.233625.36638431.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20081214.222951.190945313.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: marcel@holtmann.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37667 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752016AbYLOHgY (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:36:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Herbert Xu Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:28:00 +1100 > David Miller 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 :-)