2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Brandon Philips commit 33cb7d33a1c36e07839d08a4d1a33bf6a0f70bba upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/sky2.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/sky2.c +++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c @@ -4528,6 +4528,8 @@ 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, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/