From d3eab82b554eeb51f038ac327b6c68c6afdee978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trent Piepho Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:12:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] gianfar: Create net device with carrier down The device's carrier status is controlled via the functions netif_carrier_on() and netif_carrier_off(). These set or clear a bit indicating the carrier (aka lower level link) is down, and if the state changed, they fire off a routing netlink event. Add a call to netif_carrier_off() before register_netdev() so that the newly created device will be set to carrier down. Then when the carrier comes up for the first time, a netlink event will be generated, as the carrier changed from down to up. Otherwise the initial carrier up will appear to be changing the status from up to up, and so no event is generated since that's not a change. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/gianfar.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c index 4320a98..b5bb7ae 100644 --- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.c @@ -339,6 +339,9 @@ static int gfar_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) /* Enable most messages by default */ priv->msg_enable = (NETIF_MSG_IFUP << 1 ) - 1; + /* Carrier starts down, phylib will bring it up */ + netif_carrier_off(dev); + err = register_netdev(dev); if (err) { -- 2.7.4