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    Michael> Looks like your devices are all single-port. With a multi
    Michael> port device it is quite common to have one port down.

My reading of the patch is that it warns if the link is up physically
but does not come up logically.  Which would still be reasonable for a
multi-port device.

But I am still wondering about when this is really useful.

 - R.