From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: fubar@us.ibm.com, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:48:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F957E2.8040406@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427.183640.182469000.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:55:58 -0700
>
>> I'm reluctant to mess with this behavior without knowing why it
>> works this way; there may be a good reason for it that I'm not aware
>> of.
>
> To be honest I think it's just that this is one huge dark
> corner of behavior for many virtual devices, rather than
> any of it being intentional.
For what it's worth, I've been using a patch that disables the
behaviour in vlan that brings up/down the interface based on
the underlying device for several years w/out noticeable problems.
However, I may just be getting lucky.
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-30 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 15:44 vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down Patrick McHardy
2009-04-24 16:39 ` Ben Greear
2009-04-25 0:31 ` Jay Vosburgh
2009-04-26 19:58 ` Ben Greear
2009-04-27 23:55 ` Jay Vosburgh
2009-04-28 1:36 ` David Miller
2009-04-30 7:48 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-05-05 12:41 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-26 1:06 ` David Miller
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