netdev - Re: confusing comment, explanation of @IFF

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Message-ID: <20180826135144.11fd9a5f@xeon-e3>
Date:   Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:51:44 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Linux kernel netdev mailing list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: confusing comment, explanation of @IFF_RUNNING in if.h

On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:20:24 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
> > >   i ask since, in my testing, when the interface should have been
> > > up, the attribute file "operstate" for that interface showed
> > > "unknown", and i wondered how worried i should be about that.  
> >
> > Hi Robert
> >
> > You should probably post the driver for review. A well written
> > driver should not even need to care about any of this. phylib and
> > the netdev driver code does all the work. It only gets interesting
> > when you don't have a PHY, e.g. a stacked device, like bonding, or a
> > virtual device like tun/tap.  
> 
>   i wish, but i'm on contract, and proprietary, and NDA and all that.
> so i am reduced to crawling through the code, trying to figure out
> what is misconfigured that is causing all this grief.
> 
> rday
> 

So you expect FOSS developers to help you with proprietary licensed
driver. Good Luck with that.