Re: Patch resubmission: RFC2863 operstatus for 2.5.50

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> I would summarize his patch as adding variable to represent literally
> ifOperStatus, along with a lock and apparatus to set this variable.
>
> The value may be deduced, without having to literally track it.

If it can be deduced then no point in tracking it.

i think my shepherding of the patch is done at this point. I'll let you
take it from here.

BTW, I still think theres need to clean up the qdisc queues when a link
goes operationaly down.

cheers,
jamal