[NET]: Disable queueing when carrier is lost.
authorTommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net>
Tue, 3 May 2005 23:18:52 +0000 (16:18 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 3 May 2005 23:18:52 +0000 (16:18 -0700)
Some network drivers call netif_stop_queue() when detecting loss of
carrier. This leads to packets being queued up at the qdisc level for
an unbound period of time. In order to prevent this effect, the core
networking stack will now cease to queue packets for any device, that
is operationally down (i.e. the queue is flushed and disabled).

Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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