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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* driver. */
igb_get_hw_control(adapter);
- /* tell the stack to leave us alone until igb_open() is called */
- netif_carrier_off(netdev);
- netif_tx_stop_all_queues(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_IGB_DCA
if (dca_add_requester(&pdev->dev) == 0) {
adapter->flags |= IGB_FLAG_DCA_ENABLED;
if (test_bit(__IGB_TESTING, &adapter->state))
return -EBUSY;
+ netif_carrier_off(netdev);
+
/* allocate transmit descriptors */
err = igb_setup_all_tx_resources(adapter);
if (err)