Gur Stavi wrote: > PACKET socket can retain its fanout membership through link down and up > and leave a fanout while closed regardless of link state. > However, socket was forbidden from joining a fanout while it was not > RUNNING. > > This patch allows PACKET socket to join fanout while not RUNNING. > > Socket can be RUNNING if it has a specified protocol. Either directly > from packet_create (being implicitly bound to any interface) or following > a successful bind. Socket RUNNING state is switched off if it is bound to > an interface that went down. > > Instead of the test for RUNNING, this patch adds a test that socket can > become RUNNING. > > Signed-off-by: Gur Stavi <gur.stavi@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
