Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757349AbXINSSE (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:18:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753184AbXINSRw (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:17:52 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:41678 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754350AbXINSRv (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:17:51 -0400 Message-ID: <46EAD049.4020107@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:17:45 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Williams CC: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes References: <20070913053022.GA16891@havoc.gtf.org> <1189793598.2508.4.camel@xo-3E-67-34.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1189793598.2508.4.camel@xo-3E-67-34.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 17 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/