Hi!

> I'm seeing some odd behaviour with the netdev trigger and some WiFi
> interfaces.
> 
> When the WiFi interface has never been brought up (so is in an
> operationally disabled state), if I bind a LED to the netdev
> trigger, setting the device_name to the WiFi interface name and
> enable the "link" property, the LED illuminates, indicating that
> the WiFi device has link - but it's disabled.
> 
> If I up/down the WiFi interface, thereby returning it to the
> original state, the link LED goes out.
> 
> I suspect ledtrig-netdev.c needs to check that the device is both
> up (dev->flags & IFF_UP) and netif_carrier_ok(dev) both return true,
> rather than just relying on netif_carrier_ok(). I don't think using
> netif_running() is appropriate, as that will return true before
> ndo_open() has been called to initialise the carrier state.
> 
> Agreed?

Seems reasonable to me. Will you do the patch?

Best regards,
								Pavel
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