Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC iproute2] Add VF link state control

From: Dan Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 11:24:46 -0500

On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 09:17 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed,  8 May 2013 16:45:17 +0300
> Or Gerlitz <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > From: Rony Efraim <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Add link state per VF command
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rony Efraim <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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