netdev - Re: [PATCH] Make virtio_net support carrier detection

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	pktoss@...il.com, dcbw@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make virtio_net support carrier detection

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:17:11 +1030

> Subject: virtio_net: set carrier on by default.
> 
> Impact: fix carrier detection, older NetworkManager
> 
> This is actually two fixes:
> 1) If the virtio_net device doesn't support carrier, the answer is
>    "yes".  This is because before the status feature there was no way
>    of turning the link off in any host implementation, and it also helps
>    (older) NetworkManager versions to see the device.
> 
> 2) We should start with carrier on: virtnet_update_status() does nothing
>    if the status hasn't changed (ie. doesn't call netif_carrier_on()).
> 
> Reported-by: Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

You can set netif_carrier_on() until you are blue in the face,
but until you hook up the ethtool link indication operation
NetworkManager won't see it.

I don't understand what all of this hob-knobbing is about,
Pantelis's patch was perfect, appropriate, and should have
gone straight in to net-2.6 and probably -stable too.

Is this some kind of control issue Rusty?  It's the only
explanation I can come up with :-))
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