Subject: Re: [VLAN]: translate IF_OPER_DORMANT to netif_dormant_on()

From: Stefan Rompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 10:49:31 +0200

Am Freitag, 7. Juli 2006 23:33 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:

> Not really. The flag code last major change was to do the dormant
> stuff that HDLC wanted.

... and where the maintainer doesn't seem to care to use it now that the 
infrastructure is there. Sigh.

> IMHO VLAN device's should mirror the state of the underlying physical
> device.
>
> I can't really follow the thread well. What is broken?

The thread is still quite short and describes the problem, look at 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115200782600004&r=1&w=2

Stefan