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From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
	Linux kernel ntedev mailing list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: for newbies, it would be useful to document values of netdev_state_t
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 10:45:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cdb2440-6c91-9336-9147-e69b700e93f7@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1808041128280.23447@localhost.localdomain>

On 08/04/2018 05:30 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i'm sure this is second nature for the experts here, but in
> netdevice.h:
> 
> /* These flag bits are private to the generic network queueing
>  * layer; they may not be explicitly referenced by any other
>  * code.
>  */
> 
> enum netdev_state_t {
>         __LINK_STATE_START,
>         __LINK_STATE_PRESENT,
>         __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER,
>         __LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING,
>         __LINK_STATE_DORMANT,
> };
> 
> it would be handy to have a short explanation of what each state
> represents, perhaps what combinations are possible and how one moves
> from one state to another.
> 
> rday
> 

It is far from perfect, but Documentation/networking/operstates.txt
might get you started.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-08 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-04 15:30 for newbies, it would be useful to document values of netdev_state_t Robert P. J. Day
2018-08-04 18:10 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-08-08  8:45 ` Julian Wiedmann [this message]

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