On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > i ask since, in my testing, when the interface should have been > > up, the attribute file "operstate" for that interface showed > > "unknown", and i wondered how worried i should be about that. > > Hi Robert > > You should probably post the driver for review. A well written > driver should not even need to care about any of this. phylib and > the netdev driver code does all the work. It only gets interesting > when you don't have a PHY, e.g. a stacked device, like bonding, or a > virtual device like tun/tap.
i wish, but i'm on contract, and proprietary, and NDA and all that. so i am reduced to crawling through the code, trying to figure out what is misconfigured that is causing all this grief. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================