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SubjectRe: IFF_LOWER_UP does not fit in ifr_flags
On Thu, 28 May 2009 14:59:05 +0200 "Fredrik Arnerup" <fredrik.arnerup@edgeware.tv> wrote:

> Documentation/networking/operstates.txt (and netdevice(7)) claims that
> the flags IFF_LOWER_UP, IFF_DORMANT and IFF_ECHO can be read from user space
> using ioctl() with SIOCGIFFLAGS. Looking in include/linux/if.h however,
> the flags are returned in a struct ifreq in the field ifr_flags which
> is declared as a short, while the flags are defined as:
>
> #define IFF_LOWER_UP 0x10000 /* driver signals L1 up */
> #define IFF_DORMANT 0x20000 /* driver signals dormant */
> #define IFF_ECHO 0x40000 /* echo sent packets */
>
> Those aren't shorts, are they? In net/core/dev.c dev_get_flags() returns
> an unsigned which is assigned to ifr_flags directly.
>
> Looked at linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.29.y.git.
> CC me please.
>

(cc netdev)


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