netif_dormant_on (9) Linux Manual Page
netif_dormant_on – mark device as dormant.
Synopsis
void netif_dormant_on(struct net_device *dev);Arguments
dev
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- network device
Description
Mark device as dormant (as per RFC2863).
The dormant state indicates that the relevant interface is not actually in a condition to pass packets (i.e., it is not ‘up’) but is in a “pending” state, waiting for some external event. For “on- demand” interfaces, this new state identifies the situation where the interface is waiting for events to place it in the up state.