From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:17:45 -0400
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
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Dan Williams wrote:
> WTF?  why would the default be to _not_ propagate carrier state?  Are
> there some mitigating circumstances that require this driver to not
> notify the stack of carrier on/off?  Userspace stuff really should know
> about the carrier state, and this disables it by default.


The commit explains that...

	Jeff