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Message-ID: <89A39FC0957640879F8975880836CF91@edgeware.tv>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:59:05 +0200
From: "Fredrik Arnerup" <fredrik.arnerup@...eware.tv>
To: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: IFF_LOWER_UP does not fit in ifr_flags
Documentation/networking/operstates.txt (and netdevice(7)) claims that
the flags IFF_LOWER_UP, IFF_DORMANT and IFF_ECHO can be read from user space
using ioctl() with SIOCGIFFLAGS. Looking in include/linux/if.h however,
the flags are returned in a struct ifreq in the field ifr_flags which
is declared as a short, while the flags are defined as:
#define IFF_LOWER_UP 0x10000 /* driver signals L1 up */
#define IFF_DORMANT 0x20000 /* driver signals dormant */
#define IFF_ECHO 0x40000 /* echo sent packets */
Those aren't shorts, are they? In net/core/dev.c dev_get_flags() returns
an unsigned which is assigned to ifr_flags directly.
Looked at linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.29.y.git.
CC me please.
/Fredrik Arnerup
fredrik.arnerup@...eware.tv
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