netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] cxgb4vf: Forcefully link up virtual interfaces

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Date:   Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:12:06 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ganeshgr@...lsio.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nirranjan@...lsio.com,
        indranil@...lsio.com, venkatesh@...lsio.com, leedom@...lsio.com,
        arjun@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] cxgb4vf: Forcefully link up virtual
 interfaces

From: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@...lsio.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Mar 2018 15:01:04 +0530

> From: Arjun Vynipadath <arjun@...lsio.com>
> 
> The Virtual Interfaces are connected to an internal switch on the chip
> which allows VIs attached to the same port to talk to each other even
> when the port link is down.  As a result, we generally want to always
> report a VI's link as being "up".
> 
> Based on the original work by: Casey Leedom <leedom@...lsio.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arjun Vynipadath <arjun@...lsio.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@...lsio.com>
> ---
> V2: Doing force_link_up unconditionally

Applied.