Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: emac_close() needs to call netif_carrier_off()

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:02:22 +1000

> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:32 -0700, Petri Gynther wrote:
>> Stephen,
>> 
>> I think your suggestion of adding netif_running() check to
>> bond_check_dev_link() is valid and a good fix to the bonding driver.
>> We can do this in a separate patch.
>> 
>> However, I think that the change to ibm_newemac: emac_close() is
>> needed as well. ibm_newemac netdevs should not return
>> netif_carrier_ok() == TRUE when they have been shut down.
> 
> Well, we definitely don't do that in sungem either, since we continue
> the link polling while the interface is down... IE. interface up/down is
> the data path and is orthogonal to the PHY polling in sungem. I suppose
> we -could- stop the polling while the interface is down, though I think
> my initial implementation did only poll the link while the interface was
> up and that was causing endless problems with various laptop-net style
> tools (however that was years and years ago).

It just shows how few people use sungem with bonding :-)

Short term I'm going to add the ibm_newemac change.

Longer term we should probably add the netif_running() check to
bond_check_dev_link().