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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make virtio_net support carrier detection
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:40:14 -0700 (PDT)
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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.