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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:36:25 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: herbert@...dor.apana.org.au Cc: marcel@...tmann.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: IFF_RUNNING without carrier after reboot From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:28:00 +1100 > David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > > > > The RUNNING state has no connection to link presence. > > > > It just means that the device has been brought up by a > > user configuration command like the ifconfig you ran. > > > > It really means nothing else. > > Well RUNNING did use to indicate carrier state. In fact I didn't > even know that it had changed until this email :) > > This is the changeset which did it: Yes, it was a bug and we fixed it more than 2 years ago. Thanks for confirming :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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