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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] cxgb4vf: Forcefully link up virtual
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From: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@chelsio.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Mar 2018 15:01:04 +0530

> From: Arjun Vynipadath <arjun@chelsio.com>
> 
> The Virtual Interfaces are connected to an internal switch on the chip
> which allows VIs attached to the same port to talk to each other even
> when the port link is down.  As a result, we generally want to always
> report a VI's link as being "up".
> 
> Based on the original work by: Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arjun Vynipadath <arjun@chelsio.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@chelsio.com>
> ---
> V2: Doing force_link_up unconditionally

Applied.