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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2009-07-30 13:16:45 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-07-30 13:16:45 -0700
commitb4076d1715b8a38138db0805a85932b3b650d583 (patch)
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vlan: allow creating vlan when real device is not up
There is no reason for the arbitrary restriction that device must be up to create a vlan. This patch was added to Vyatta kernel to resolve startup ordering issues where vlan's are created but real device was disabled. Note: the vlan already correctly inherits the operstate from real device; so if vlan is created and real device is marked down, the vlan is marked down. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/8021q/vlan.c')
-rw-r--r--net/8021q/vlan.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index 6d37b7e2a767..a1f16303703a 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -225,12 +225,6 @@ int vlan_check_real_dev(struct net_device *real_dev, u16 vlan_id)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
- /* The real device must be up and operating in order to
- * assosciate a VLAN device with it.
- */
- if (!(real_dev->flags & IFF_UP))
- return -ENETDOWN;
-
if (__find_vlan_dev(real_dev, vlan_id) != NULL)
return -EEXIST;