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...devices. Many devices turn off PHY and link layer > > if not IFF_UP > True, that's what I said about introducing internal state for those driver > and other kernel component. Very invasive change indeed. > > -Siwei Well I did say it's vague. How about hiding IFF_UP from dev_get_flags (and probably __dev_change_flags)?

...; if not IFF_UP > > > True, that's what I said about introducing internal state for those driver > > > and other kernel component. Very invasive change indeed. > > > > > > -Siwei > > Well I did say it's vague. > > How about hiding IFF_UP from dev_get_flags (and probably > > __dev_change_flags)? > > > Any different? This has small footprint for the kernel change for sure, > while the discrepancy is still there. Anyone who writes code for IFF_UP will > not notice IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE. > > Not to mention more userspace "f...

...at I said about introducing internal state for those driver > > > > > and other kernel component. Very invasive change indeed. > > > > > > > > > > -Siwei > > > > Well I did say it's vague. > > > > How about hiding IFF_UP from dev_get_flags (and probably > > > > __dev_change_flags)? > > > > > > > Any different? This has small footprint for the kernel change for sure, > > > while the discrepancy is still there. Anyone who writes code for IFF_UP will > > > not notice IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE...

...se driver > > > > > > > and other kernel component. Very invasive change indeed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Siwei > > > > > > Well I did say it's vague. > > > > > > How about hiding IFF_UP from dev_get_flags (and probably > > > > > > __dev_change_flags)? > > > > > > > > > > > Any different? This has small footprint for the kernel change for sure, > > > > > while the discrepancy is still there. Anyone who writes code for IFF_UP will >...

...) >+ goto out_kfree_skb; > > /* If packet is not checksummed and device does not support > * checksumming for this protocol, complete checksumming here. >@@ -3350,6 +3361,7 @@ > EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_enable_timestamp); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_disable_timestamp); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_flags); >+EXPORT_SYMBOL(xen_checksum_setup); > > #if defined(CONFIG_BRIDGE) || defined(CONFIG_BRIDGE_MODULE) > EXPORT_SYMBOL(br_handle_frame_hook); >diff -r 57e6d7218427 -r 079135b0d58f patches/linux-2.6.16-rc2/net-csum.patch >--- a/patches/linux-2.6.16-rc2/net-csum.patch Fri Feb 3 18...