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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 09:40:14 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
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	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>, Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V6 09/13] devlink: Add 'keep_link_up' generic
 devlink device param
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 08:04:51PM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
> 
> Devices that support this in permanent mode will be requested to keep the
> port link up even when driver is not loaded, netdev carrier state won't
> affect the physical port link state.
> 
> This is useful for when the link is needed to access onboard management
> such as BMC, even if the host driver isn't loaded.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>