netdev - Re: .$BEz.$(P%;.(B: Re: [Patch] netxen_nic: Bugfix for wrong RUNNING status of NX3031 NICs with no link

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Date:	Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:33:31 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jiang.biao2@....com.cn
Cc:	li.fengmao@....com.cn, manish.chopra@...gic.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rajesh.borundia@...gic.com,
	sony.chacko@...gic.com
Subject: Re: .$BEz.$(P%;.(B: Re: [Patch]
 netxen_nic: Bugfix for wrong RUNNING status of NX3031 NICs with no link

From: jiang.biao2@....com.cn
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:53:17 +0800

>> You cannot do this, because at the very exact moment you call
>> register_netdevice() the device can be brought up and once the
>> device is up the link can be brought up.
> 
>> Therefore if you invoke netif_carrier_off() right after
>> register_netdevice(), it can cancel out a legitimate
>> netif_carrier_on() call.
> 
> register_netdevice() should be call in probe(), at that time, is
> it impossible to bring up device because the driver loading has
> not finished?

Scripts in userspace listen for device events, such as registry, and
in response can immediately open the device.

That can occur before register_netdevice() returns, it is completely
and %100 asynchronous.
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