[PATCH 1/2][RESEND] ehea: propagate physical port state

Jeff Garzik jeff at garzik.org
Thu Sep 13 14:14:01 EST 2007


Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
> Introduces a module parameter to decide whether the physical
> port link state is propagated to the network stack or not.
> It makes sense not to take the physical port state into account
> on machines with more logical partitions that communicate
> with each other. This is always possible no matter what the physical
> port state is. Thus eHEA can be considered as a switch there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann at de.ibm.com>

applied 1-2





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