------- Comment From [email protected] 2016-02-24 01:55 EDT------- Verified. Works.
# uname -r 4.4.0-6-generic # lsqeth encf500 Device name : encf500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- card_type : OSD_1000 cdev0 : 0.0.f500 cdev1 : 0.0.f501 cdev2 : 0.0.f502 chpid : 76 online : 1 portname : no portname required portno : 0 state : UP (LAN ONLINE) priority_queueing : always queue 0 buffer_count : 64 layer2 : 1 isolation : none bridge_role : none bridge_state : inactive bridge_hostnotify : 0 bridge_reflect_promisc : none switch_attrs : unknown # cat /sys/class/net/encf500/operstate up # ip link show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: encf500: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 02:00:00:5f:fa:74 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-lts-utopic in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1541907 Title: qeth: layer2 reports unknown state to network tools. Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in linux-lts-utopic package in Ubuntu: New Status in linux source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Status in linux-lts-utopic source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Vivid: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Wily: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Xenial: Fix Released Bug description: Please backport and integration the upstream linux commit below: commit e5ebe63214d44d4dcf43df02edf3613e04d671b9 Author: Ursula Braun <[email protected]> Date: Fri Dec 11 12:27:55 2015 +0100 qeth: initialize net_device with carrier off /sys/class/net/<interface>/operstate for an active qeth network interface offen shows "unknown", which translates to "state UNKNOWN in output of "ip link show". It is caused by a missing initialization of the __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER bit in the net_device state field. This patch adds a netif_carrier_off() invocation when creating the net_device for a qeth device. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <[email protected]> Acked-by: Hendrik Brueckner <[email protected]> Reference-ID: Bugzilla 133209 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1541907/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
