Commit b64b73d7 authored Oct 03, 2011 by stephen hemminger Committed by David S. Miller Oct 06, 2011

bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge



This resolves a regression seen by some users of bridging.
Some users use the bridge like a dummy device.
They expect to be able to put an IPv6 address on the device
with no ports attached. Although there are better ways of doing
this, there is no reason to not allow it.

Note: the bridge still will reflect the state of ports in the
bridge if there are any added.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 3458e21c

net/bridge/br_device.c

+0 −3

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		@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ static int br_dev_open(struct net_device *dev)
		{
		struct net_bridge *br = netdev_priv(dev);

		netif_carrier_off(dev);
		netdev_update_features(dev);
		netif_start_queue(dev);
		br_stp_enable_bridge(br);
		@@ -108,8 +107,6 @@ static int br_dev_stop(struct net_device *dev)
		{
		struct net_bridge *br = netdev_priv(dev);

		netif_carrier_off(dev);

		br_stp_disable_bridge(br);
		br_multicast_stop(br);

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