netdev - Re: [PATCH] Ensure IF_READY is unset when link is not ready

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Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:47:56 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	mitch@...ux.vnet.ibm.com (Mitsuru Chinen), davem@...emloft.net,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, usagi-core@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure IF_READY is unset when link is not ready

Mitsuru Chinen <mitch@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> On linux-2.6.21-rc2 or later, IPv6 link-local address is not assigned to
> some kind of interfaces during system start-up. (I found this issue
> occures with e100, e1000 and tg3.)

Here is an alternative fix.

[IPV6]: Do not set IF_READY if device is down

Now that we add the IPv6 device at registration time we don't need
to set IF_READY in ipv6_add_dev anymore because we will always get
a NETDEV_UP event later on should the device ever become ready.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

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diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index e16f1bb..a7fee6b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -342,10 +342,6 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	if (netif_carrier_ok(dev))
-		ndev->if_flags |= IF_READY;
-
-
 	ipv6_mc_init_dev(ndev);
 	ndev->tstamp = jiffies;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
-
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