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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@infinera.com>
Cc: "claudiu.manoil@nxp.com" <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gianfar: Add gfar_change_carrier()
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 20:43:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181206194317.GK18674@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4ec3da0eae79aaef4c9436f5d7a72b38387c8b2.camel@infinera.com>

> I can have a look at using dormant, but what is change_carrier
> supposed to do if not this?

It is intended for interfaces which are stacked, like the team driver,
and for devices which don't have a phy, e.g. tun, and dummy.

> I didn't find a tool for DORMANT, I guess i will have to write one
> myself(using SIOCGIFFLAGS, SIOCSIFFLAGS)?

ip link should be able to set it.

Try ip link set mode dormant dev eth0

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-06 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-06 15:31 [PATCH] gianfar: Add gfar_change_carrier() Joakim Tjernlund
2018-12-06 15:47 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-12-06 16:02   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2018-12-06 16:21     ` Andrew Lunn
2018-12-06 16:31       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2018-12-06 16:54         ` Andrew Lunn
2018-12-06 18:46           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2018-12-06 19:43             ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-12-07 14:07               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2018-12-07 14:15                 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-12-07 17:01                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2018-12-07 17:26                     ` Andrew Lunn
2018-12-07 20:40                       ` Florian Fainelli
2018-12-10 15:37                         ` Joakim Tjernlund

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