From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gre: propagate state of link back go to tunnel
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:18:39 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120321.221839.274547591318904841.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120319165843.7b18412a@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:58:43 -0700
> GRE tunnels like other layered devices should propagate
> carrier and RFC2863 state from lower device to tunnel.
> Based on similar code in vlan device driver.
> By using operstate it is possible for user mode to create tunnel
> and use stepped outlined in Documentation/networking/operstate.txt
> to control carrier.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
>
> ---
> Not urgent, can wait if the release window is already over the
> queue limit
Yeah, please resubmit this once net-next opens back up.
And meanwhile you can duplicate this fix to ipip, sit, ip6_tunnel etc.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-22 2:18 UTC|newest]
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2012-03-19 23:58 [PATCH] gre: propagate state of link back go to tunnel Stephen Hemminger
2012-03-22 2:18 ` David Miller [this message]
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