From 857874b2d4f92b800ecc12a5e52adeaf3855b101 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:48:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] do not recreate or restart external devices on settings
 changes, apply them at runtime

---
 device.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/device.c b/device.c
index bc5bc46..0788757 100644
--- a/device.c
+++ b/device.c
@@ -584,6 +584,10 @@ device_create(const char *name, const struct device_type *type,
 	if (odev) {
 		odev->current_config = true;
 		change = device_set_config(odev, type, config);
+		if (odev->external) {
+			system_if_apply_settings(odev, &odev->settings);
+			change = DEV_CONFIG_APPLIED;
+		}
 		switch (change) {
 		case DEV_CONFIG_RESTART:
 		case DEV_CONFIG_APPLIED:
-- 
2.11.0