> Hello!
>
> > I think you didn't understand it. My patch against syncppp.c (and
> > net/core/dev.c) allows IFF_RUNNING to be set by the link protocol driver,
> > while IFF_UP is set by dev.c only.
>
> Changing dev->flags in any place different of dev.c is bug (pretty harmless).
> But if you change it at BH or IRQ, it is serious bug.
Could you please explain a bit ?
> I understand your enthusiasm, but try to keep administrative things
> and link state separately yet and to protect things changed by interrupts
> properly.
I've done it when Alan suggested me to do it that way. What is your
suggestion on how to handle the problem of getting the state of a link
protocol from outside of the link protocol driver ?
Greg
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