From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux kernel netdev mailing list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: confusing comment, explanation of @IFF_RUNNING in if.h
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 21:20:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180826192001.GC7359@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1808260410530.31293@localhost.localdomain>
> i ask since, in my testing, when the interface should have been up,
> the attribute file "operstate" for that interface showed "unknown",
> and i wondered how worried i should be about that.
Hi Robert
You should probably post the driver for review. A well written driver
should not even need to care about any of this. phylib and the netdev
driver code does all the work. It only gets interesting when you don't
have a PHY, e.g. a stacked device, like bonding, or a virtual device
like tun/tap.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-26 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-26 8:13 confusing comment, explanation of @IFF_RUNNING in if.h Robert P. J. Day
2018-08-26 19:20 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-08-26 19:20 ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-08-26 19:28 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-08-26 19:30 ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-08-26 20:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-27 6:20 ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-08-27 7:11 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2018-08-27 8:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
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