From: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@exchange.microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:40:47 -0700

> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
> 
> When the VF NIC is opened, the synthetic NIC's carrier state is set to
> off. This tells the host to transitions data path to the VF device. But
> if startup script or user manipulates the admin state of the netvsc
> device directly for example:
>         # ifconfig eth0 down
>       # ifconfig eth0 up
> Then the carrier state of the synthetic NIC would be on, even though the
> data path was still over the VF NIC. This patch sets the carrier state
> of synthetic NIC with consideration of the related VF state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>

Applied.

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