From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:34:06 -0800

> This makes the bridge device behave like a physical device.
> In earlier releases the bridge always asserted carrier. This
> changes the behavior so that bridge device carrier is on only
> if one or more ports are in the forwarding state. This
> should help IPv6 autoconfiguration, DHCP, and routing daemons.
> 
> I did brief testing with Network and Virt manager and they
> seem fine, but since this changes behavior of bridge, it should
> wait until net-next (2.6.39).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks Stephen.
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