Subject: [PATCH] Make virtio_net support carrier detection

From: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:53:51 +1030

Impact: Make NetworkManager work with virtio_net

For now the semantics are simple: There is always carrier.

This allows a seamless experience with e.g., qemu/kvm
where NetworkManager just configures and sets up
everything automagically.

If/when a generally agreed-upon way to control
carrier on/off in the emulator/hypervisor level
emerges, it will be trivial to extend the driver
to support that too, but for now even this 2-liner
makes user experience that much better.

Signed-off-by: Pantelis Koukousoulas <[email-masked]>
Acked-by: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index c688083..e67d16c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -612,6 +612,7 @@ static struct ethtool_ops virtnet_ethtool_ops = {
 	.set_tx_csum = virtnet_set_tx_csum,
 	.set_sg = ethtool_op_set_sg,
 	.set_tso = ethtool_op_set_tso,
+	.get_link = ethtool_op_get_link,
 };
 
 #define MIN_MTU 68
@@ -739,6 +740,8 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		goto unregister;
 	}
 
+	netif_carrier_on(dev);
+
 	pr_debug("virtnet: registered device %s\n", dev->name);
 	return 0;
 
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1.5.6.3