netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/5] net/lapb: support netdev events

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Message-ID: <16b7e74e6e221f43420da7836659d7df@dev.tdt.de>
Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:38:34 +0100
From:   Martin Schiller <ms@....tdt.de>
To:     Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Linux X25 <linux-x25@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/5] net/lapb: support netdev events

On 2020-11-23 11:08, Xie He wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 1:36 AM Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Some drivers don't support carrier status and will never change it.
>> Their carrier status will always be UP. There will not be a
>> NETDEV_CHANGE event.

Well, one could argue that we would have to repair these drivers, but I
don't think that will get us anywhere.

 From this point of view it will be the best to handle the NETDEV_UP in
the lapb event handler and establish the link analog to the
NETDEV_CHANGE event if the carrier is UP.

>> 
>> lapbether doesn't change carrier status. I also have my own virtual
>> HDLC WAN driver (for testing) which also doesn't change carrier
>> status.
>> 
>> I just tested with lapbether. When I bring up the interface, there
>> will only be NETDEV_PRE_UP and then NETDEV_UP. There will not be
>> NETDEV_CHANGE. The carrier status is alway UP.
>> 
>> I haven't tested whether a device can receive NETDEV_CHANGE when it is
>> down. It's possible for a device driver to call netif_carrier_on when
>> the interface is down. Do you know what will happen if a device driver
>> calls netif_carrier_on when the interface is down?
> 
> I just did a test on lapbether and saw there would be no NETDEV_CHANGE
> event when the netif is down, even if netif_carrier_on/off is called.
> So we can rest assured of this part.