skge: don't mark carrier down at start
authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:52:43 +0000 (14:52 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:17:02 +0000 (22:17 -0800)
The API for network devices has changed so that setting carrier off at
probe is no longer required.  This should fix the IPv6 addrconf issue.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29612

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Reported-by: George Billios <gbillios@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/skge.c

index 42daf98..35b28f4 100644 (file)
@@ -3856,9 +3856,6 @@ static struct net_device *skge_devinit(struct skge_hw *hw, int port,
        memcpy_fromio(dev->dev_addr, hw->regs + B2_MAC_1 + port*8, ETH_ALEN);
        memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
 
-       /* device is off until link detection */
-       netif_carrier_off(dev);
-
        return dev;
 }