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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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
stephen hemminger 2011-10-03 18:14:45 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 3458e21c0d
commit b64b73d7d0
1 changed files with 0 additions and 3 deletions
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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);