netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ehea: fix operation state report

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Date:   Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:26:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gpiccoli@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dougmill@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        zhou@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ehea: fix operation state report

From: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu,  3 Nov 2016 08:16:20 -0200

> Currently the ehea driver is missing a call to netif_carrier_off()
> before the interface bring-up; this is necessary in order to
> initialize the __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER bit in the net_device state
> field. Otherwise, we observe state UNKNOWN on "ip address" command
> output.
> 
> This patch adds a call to netif_carrier_off() on ehea's net device
> open callback.
> 
> Reported-by: Xiong Zhou <zhou@...hat.com>
> Reference-ID: IBM bz #137702, Red Hat bz #1089134
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.