** Tags removed: architecture-s39031.64 ** Tags added: architecture-s39064 -- 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 Released 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 <ubr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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 <ubr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueck...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reference-ID: Bugzilla 133209 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> 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 : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp