On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 11:28 -0700, Min Zhang wrote:
> > ifconfig mlx4_en port reported RUNNING even though the link was down.
> >
> > mlx4_en_init_netdev didn't initialize the dev operstate properly so
> > the operstate stayed as default IF_OPER_UNKNOWN
On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 11:28 -0700, Min Zhang wrote:
> ifconfig mlx4_en port reported RUNNING even though the link was down.
>
> mlx4_en_init_netdev didn't initialize the dev operstate properly so
> the operstate stayed as default IF_OPER_UNKNOWN, then ifconfig treated
> the UNKNOWN as RUNNING stat
ifconfig mlx4_en port reported RUNNING even though the link was down.
mlx4_en_init_netdev didn't initialize the dev operstate properly so
the operstate stayed as default IF_OPER_UNKNOWN, then ifconfig treated
the UNKNOWN as RUNNING state for backward compatiblity per RFC2863.
The fix calls netif_
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