netdev - Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: Call netif_carrier

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Message-ID: <1297938739.9613.4.camel@ceranb.intra.cera.cz>
Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:32:19 +0100
From:	Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, aabdulla@...dia.com,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: Call netif_carrier_off at the end of the
 probe

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 11:19 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com> :
> [...]
> > Dave, Francois, is it acceptable?
> 
> Apparently both are acceptable. :o/
> 
> As a mildly convinced coward, I can not tell if it will help more applications
> than it will break.
> 
It should not break any application as the patch only avoids the
operstate to be 'unknown' instead of 'up'.


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