On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 09:56 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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> On 09/11/2018 09:41 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > I am looking for a way to induce carrier state from user space, primarily
> > for Fixed PHYs as these are always up. ifplugd/dhcp etc. does not behave
> > properly
> > if the link is up when it really isn't.
>
> Was my suggestion in my email to you somehow not working? This is
> obviously not acceptable for upstream, there is no reason, even for a
> fixed PHY, to attempt to mangle with the carrier state for any
> reasonable production purposes.
Ohh, I never got that mail. Scanning the netdev archives I found it though,
thanks.
I will go down the ndo_change_carrier() way and see whether I can work out what
to
do w.r.t fixed link status callback.
Thanks
Jocke
