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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make virtio_net support carrier detection
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:40:14 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090318.184014.04350681.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903141053.51819.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:53:51 +1030

> Impact: Make NetworkManager work with virtio_net
> 
> For now the semantics are simple: There is always carrier.
> 
> This allows a seamless experience with e.g., qemu/kvm
> where NetworkManager just configures and sets up
> everything automagically.
> 
> If/when a generally agreed-upon way to control
> carrier on/off in the emulator/hypervisor level
> emerges, it will be trivial to extend the driver
> to support that too, but for now even this 2-liner
> makes user experience that much better.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Applied, thanks Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-19  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-14  0:23 [PATCH] Make virtio_net support carrier detection Rusty Russell
2009-03-19  1:40 ` David Miller [this message]
     [not found] <1236772642-12705-1-git-send-email-pktoss@gmail.com>
2009-03-12  7:29 ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-12  7:44   ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-12  9:16     ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-12 10:23       ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-12 11:05         ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-12 11:43       ` Dan Williams
2009-03-12 12:47         ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-12 12:52           ` David Miller
2009-03-12 12:58             ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-12 13:03               ` David Miller
2009-03-12 13:10                 ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-12 13:41             ` Dan Williams
2009-03-12 13:55               ` Dan Williams
2009-03-12 21:39             ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-12 23:47               ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-12 23:55                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-13  5:04                 ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-13 19:01                 ` David Miller
2009-03-14  0:19                   ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-14 10:40                     ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-14 11:33                       ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-15 22:39                       ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-16  2:05                         ` Pantelis Koukousoulas
2009-03-16  2:58                     ` David Miller
2009-03-16  3:13                       ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-16  3:15                         ` David Miller

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