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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] driver: net: smsc911x: set NOCARRIER flag in
 driver initialization
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Balakumaran Kannan <kumaran.4353@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 00:24:46 +0530

> @@ -2525,6 +2525,8 @@ static int smsc911x_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	netdev_info(dev, "MAC Address: %pM\n", dev->dev_addr);
>  
> +	netif_carrier_off(dev);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  

You should do this before the network device is registered.