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* [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/5] ixgbe: fix link down initial state
@ 2009-04-18  6:44 Jeff Kirsher
  2009-04-18  6:44 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/5] ixgb: " Jeff Kirsher
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Kirsher @ 2009-04-18  6:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem; +Cc: netdev, gospo, Jesse Brandeburg, Jeff Kirsher

From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>

As reported by Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com>

All the intel wired ethernet drivers were calling netif_carrier_off
and netif_stop_queue (or variants) before calling register_netdevice

This is incorrect behavior as was pointed out by davem, and causes
ifconfig and friends to report a strange state before first link
after the driver was loaded, since without a netif_carrier_off, the stack
assumes carrier_on, but before register_netdev, netlink messages are not
sent out telling link state.

This apparently confused *some* versions of networkmanager.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
---

 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 0d9a3ac..d5d9589 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -3459,6 +3459,8 @@ static int ixgbe_open(struct net_device *netdev)
 	if (test_bit(__IXGBE_TESTING, &adapter->state))
 		return -EBUSY;
 
+	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
+
 	/* allocate transmit descriptors */
 	err = ixgbe_setup_all_tx_resources(adapter);
 	if (err)
@@ -4772,13 +4774,14 @@ static int __devinit ixgbe_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	/* reset the hardware with the new settings */
 	hw->mac.ops.start_hw(hw);
 
-	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
-
 	strcpy(netdev->name, "eth%d");
 	err = register_netdev(netdev);
 	if (err)
 		goto err_register;
 
+	/* carrier off reporting is important to ethtool even BEFORE open */
+	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_IXGBE_DCA
 	if (dca_add_requester(&pdev->dev) == 0) {
 		adapter->flags |= IXGBE_FLAG_DCA_ENABLED;


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2009-04-18  6:44 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/5] igb: fix link down inital state Jeff Kirsher
2009-04-18  6:44 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/5] e1000e: indicate link down at load Jeff Kirsher
2009-04-18  6:44 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 5/5] e1000: init link state correctly Jeff Kirsher
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