netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: lapbether: Consider it successful if (dis)connecting when already (dis)connected

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Date:   Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:19:23 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xie.he.0141@...il.com
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, linux-x25@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ms@....tdt.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: lapbether: Consider it successful if
 (dis)connecting when already (dis)connected

From: Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
Date: Tue,  8 Dec 2020 14:50:44 -0800

> When the upper layer instruct us to connect (or disconnect), but we have
> already connected (or disconnected), consider this operation successful
> rather than failed.
> 
> This can help the upper layer to correct its record about whether we are
> connected or not here in layer 2.
> 
> The upper layer may not have the correct information about whether we are
> connected or not. This can happen if this driver has already been running
> for some time when the "x25" module gets loaded.
> 
> Another X.25 driver (hdlc_x25) is already doing this, so we make this
> driver do this, too.
> 
> Cc: Martin Schiller <ms@....tdt.de>
> Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>

Applied, thank you.