Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] virtio-net: init link state correctly

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:08:23 +0200

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:41:27AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:17:18 pm Jason Wang wrote:
> > For device that supports VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS, there's no need to
> > assume the link is up and we need to call nerif_carrier_off() before
> > querying device status, otherwise we may get wrong operstate after
> > diver was loaded because the link watch event was not fired as
> > expected.
> > 
> > For device that does not support VIRITO_NET_F_STATUS, we could not get
> > its status through virtnet_update_status() and what we can only do is
> > always assuming the link is up.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <[email-masked]>
> 
> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
> 
> Thanks!
> Rusty.

Rusty, just to verify: who shall be queueing this up?