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ixgbe: fix link down initial state
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As reported by Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com>

All the intel wired ethernet drivers were calling netif_carrier_off
and netif_stop_queue (or variants) before calling register_netdevice

This is incorrect behavior as was pointed out by davem, and causes
ifconfig and friends to report a strange state before first link
after the driver was loaded, since without a netif_carrier_off, the stack
assumes carrier_on, but before register_netdev, netlink messages are not
sent out telling link state.

This apparently confused *some* versions of networkmanager.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jesse Brandeburg authored and David S. Miller committed Apr 20, 2009
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
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Expand Up @@ -3459,6 +3459,8 @@ static int ixgbe_open(struct net_device *netdev)
if (test_bit(__IXGBE_TESTING, &adapter->state))
return -EBUSY;

netif_carrier_off(netdev);

/* allocate transmit descriptors */
err = ixgbe_setup_all_tx_resources(adapter);
if (err)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4772,13 +4774,14 @@ static int __devinit ixgbe_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
/* reset the hardware with the new settings */
hw->mac.ops.start_hw(hw);

netif_carrier_off(netdev);

strcpy(netdev->name, "eth%d");
err = register_netdev(netdev);
if (err)
goto err_register;

/* carrier off reporting is important to ethtool even BEFORE open */
netif_carrier_off(netdev);

#ifdef CONFIG_IXGBE_DCA
if (dca_add_requester(&pdev->dev) == 0) {
adapter->flags |= IXGBE_FLAG_DCA_ENABLED;
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