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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, amirv@mellanox•com, ronye@mellanox•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC iproute2] Add VF link state control
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 11:24:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1368030286.1664.16.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130508091753.0be79e6c@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>

On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 09:17 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed,  8 May 2013 16:45:17 +0300
> Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox•com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Rony Efraim <ronye@mellanox•com>
> > 
> > Add link state per VF command
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rony Efraim <ronye@mellanox•com>
> 
> Isn't this redundant with OPERSTATE and LOWER_DOWN?

I was going to say it was mostly redundant with the "set carrier from
userspace" patches from jpirko last December, but since a VF doesn't
appear to always have a netdev, it seems that functionality has to be
special-cased for VFs instead of being generic :(

Dan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-08 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-08 13:45 [PATCH RFC 0/2] Control VF link state Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 13:45 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] net/core: Add netlink directives to control " Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 16:02   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-06-09  9:51     ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 13:45 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] net/mlx4: Add vf link state support Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 13:45 ` [PATCH RFC iproute2] Add VF link state control Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 16:17   ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-05-08 16:24     ` Dan Williams [this message]
2013-05-08 16:44       ` John Fastabend
2013-05-08 17:31         ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-09  8:34           ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-09 15:24 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] Control VF link state Ben Hutchings
2013-05-09 23:17   ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-10  0:34     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-05-12 21:48       ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-14 17:12         ` Ben Hutchings
2013-05-14 19:59           ` John Fastabend
2013-05-20 20:06       ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-20 20:37         ` Ben Hutchings
2013-05-21 20:12           ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-21 21:43             ` John Fastabend
2013-06-09 13:27               ` Or Gerlitz

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