netdev - Re: [PATCH] sky2: set carrier off in probe

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Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:51:28 -0700
From:	Brandon Philips <bphilips@...e.de>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: set carrier off in probe

On 20:09 Thu 29 Oct 2009, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:58:07 -0700
> Brandon Philips <bphilips@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > Before bringing up a sky2 interface up ethtool reports 
> > "Link detected: yes". Do as ixgbe does and netif_carrier_off() on
> > probe().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@...e.de>
> > 
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/sky2.c |    2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6/drivers/net/sky2.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/sky2.c
> > @@ -4538,6 +4538,8 @@ static int __devinit sky2_probe(struct p
> >  		goto err_out_free_netdev;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	netif_carrier_off(dev);
> > +
> >  	netif_napi_add(dev, &hw->napi, sky2_poll, NAPI_WEIGHT);
> >  
> >  	err = request_irq(pdev->irq, sky2_intr,
> 
> IMHO carrier is meaningless until device is up? What software
> cares?

A customer had a script that was testing for ethtool reporting "Link
detected: yes" and taking some sort of action. They found other
drivers reported "Link detected: No" until the first interface up.

The right thing to do is up the interface first before looking at the
the Link state, and I told them to do that, but I figured that this
patch made sense too to fix the initial buglet.

Cheers,

	Brandon
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