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>
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index 6d37b7e..a1f1630 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -225,12 +225,6 @@
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;