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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next] net: lapbether: Consider it successful if (dis)connecting when already (dis)connected
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From: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 14:50:44 -0800

> When the upper layer instruct us to connect (or disconnect), but we have
> already connected (or disconnected), consider this operation successful
> rather than failed.
>
> This can help the upper layer to correct its record about whether we are
> connected or not here in layer 2.
>
> The upper layer may not have the correct information about whether we are
> connected or not. This can happen if this driver has already been running
> for some time when the "x25" module gets loaded.
>
> Another X.25 driver (hdlc_x25) is already doing this, so we make this
> driver do this, too.
>
> Cc: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
> Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>

Applied, thank you.

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