From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof•de>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm•waw.pl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [VLAN]: translate IF_OPER_DORMANT to netif_dormant_on()
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:58:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607102358.28470.stefan@loplof.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33bd9653d.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
Am Montag, 10. Juli 2006 14:01 schrieb Krzysztof Halasa:
> > You've got two independant flags of which one does not stop the queue.
>
> Is it ok to set that flag without synchronization with other flags?
> I.e, from within another module and without using cross-module locks,
> as I've shown at the time? Just asking, I don't know what the final
> conclusion was.
>
> I.e., is it ok if the hardware module does netif_carrier_on/off()
> (for example, from its IRQ handler) and if the protocol module does
> netif_dormant_on/off() independently (for example, from its timer
> or linkwatch)?
Yes, you can read and write these flags independantly. For the details, look
at Documentation/networking/operstates.txt in the 2.6.17 tree.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-10 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-07-04 10:07 ` [VLAN]: translate IF_OPER_DORMANT to netif_dormant_on() Patrick McHardy
2006-07-05 18:57 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-07-05 21:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-07-05 21:17 ` Ben Greear
2006-07-06 7:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-07-07 9:45 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-07-07 9:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-07-07 21:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-09 8:49 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-07-09 18:48 ` David Miller
2006-07-09 20:05 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-07-10 0:29 ` David Miller
2006-07-10 11:39 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-07-10 6:17 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-07-10 12:01 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-07-10 21:58 ` Stefan Rompf [this message]
2006-07-10 16:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-10 17:02 ` Ben Greear
2006-07-10 22:01 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-07-11 21:28 ` [RFC] vlan handling of up/down Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-11 21:47 ` Ben Greear
2006-07-11 22:19 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-07-11 22:07 ` [VLAN]: translate IF_OPER_DORMANT to netif_dormant_on() Stefan Rompf
2006-07-11 22:15 ` Repost: " Stefan Rompf
2006-07-12 6:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-07-19 12:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-07-24 20:52 ` David Miller
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