Re: RTM_NEWNEIGH

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 03:14:57AM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> [...]
> The only elephants left in the room are drivers that don't set IFF_UP before
> LINK_STATE_UPi (hi sk(4))

I don't understant this. IFF_UP should not be set by the driver; it's
externally set to ask the driver to start operations.
What's the problem with setting link state independantly from IFF_UP ?
sk(4) is probably not the only driver doing this; if the link state can
be polled independanly from packet reception (I guess all interfaces supporting
wake on lan, or shared with an IPMI management card will, or should, do this)

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