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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:18:39 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: shemminger@...tta.com Cc: herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] gre: propagate state of link back go to tunnel From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:58:43 -0700 > GRE tunnels like other layered devices should propagate > carrier and RFC2863 state from lower device to tunnel. > Based on similar code in vlan device driver. > By using operstate it is possible for user mode to create tunnel > and use stepped outlined in Documentation/networking/operstate.txt > to control carrier. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> > > --- > Not urgent, can wait if the release window is already over the > queue limit Yeah, please resubmit this once net-next opens back up. And meanwhile you can duplicate this fix to ipip, sit, ip6_tunnel etc. -- 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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