From: Andy Gospodarek This is a small fix-up to finish out the work done by Jay Vosburgh to add carrier-state support for bonding devices. The output in /proc/net/bonding/bondX was correct, but when collecting the same info via an iotcl it could still be incorrect. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek Cc: Jeff Garzik Cc: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-incorrect-bonding-state-reported-via-ioctl drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-incorrect-bonding-state-reported-via-ioctl +++ a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -3675,7 +3675,7 @@ static int bond_do_ioctl(struct net_devi mii->val_out = 0; read_lock_bh(&bond->lock); read_lock(&bond->curr_slave_lock); - if (bond->curr_active_slave) { + if (netif_carrier_ok(bond->dev)) { mii->val_out = BMSR_LSTATUS; } read_unlock(&bond->curr_slave_lock); _