On Sun, 10 May 2026 18:43:32 +0200 Íñigo Huguet wrote: > Allow to read the carrier status of a netdevsim device via ethtool, like > most of Ethernet devices allow. > > Also, allow to set its carrier status via sysfs. Currently it's only > possible by linking a peer device and setting its admin state to > UP/DOWN. By editing the carrier status via sysfs tests that need to > check carrier related stuff may be simpler. > > The third patch add the proper selftest for both things, and the fourth > and fifth fix a few small bugs in the selftest itself.
Could you please explain your motivation? Feels quite trivial, so it's not immediately obvious why we need tests.
