netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: control carrier based on ports online

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Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:29:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com, adamm@...bino.com,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	andy@...yhouse.net, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: control carrier based on ports online

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:34:06 -0800

> This makes the bridge device behave like a physical device.
> In earlier releases the bridge always asserted carrier. This
> changes the behavior so that bridge device carrier is on only
> if one or more ports are in the forwarding state. This
> should help IPv6 autoconfiguration, DHCP, and routing daemons.
> 
> I did brief testing with Network and Virt manager and they
> seem fine, but since this changes behavior of bridge, it should
> wait until net-next (2.6.39).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks Stephen.
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