In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:54:29 -0500), Jeff
Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> I'm not sure all drivers have been converted to use netif_carrier_ok(),
> which would imply that IPv6 would now be broken on all drivers that do
> not yet support it?
I don't think so.
Unless __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER is expicitly set on dev->state,
netif_carrier_ok(dev) is true.
It is {set,reset} by the drivers using netif_carrier_{off,on}(dev),
respectively.
Since legacy drivers do not set it nor reset it, so netif_carrier_ok(dev)
should be 1 on such drivers.
--yoshfuji
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