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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:45:12 +0200 From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com> To: Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com, shemminger@...tta.com Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6 1/2] net: allow to change carrier via sysfs Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:33:50AM CEST, mirqus@...il.com wrote: >W dniu 31 sierpnia 2011 10:26 użytkownik Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com> napisał: >> Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:11:37PM CEST, mirqus@...il.com wrote: >>>2011/8/30 Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>: >>>> Allow to write to "carrier" attribute. Devices may implement ndo_change_carrier >>>> callback to allow changing carrier from userspace. >>>Do you expect drivers using implementation different than just calling >>>netif_carrier_on/off? Or is it supposed to also e.g. power down PHYs? >> Yes, generally it can be used also for en/disable phy, for testing >> purposes if hw and driver would support it. > >I'd like to see this working for GRE tunnel devices (for keepalive >daemon to be able to indicate to routing daemons whether tunnel is >really working) - implementation would be identical to dummy's case. >Should I prepare a patch or can I leave it to you? Ok, I can include it to this patchset (I'm going to repost first patch anyway) > >Best Regards, >Michał Mirosław -- 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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