From: Jesse Brandeburg Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:44:29 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ixgb: fix link down initial state X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3a6d1bc4163fee27c312184d5f1a9cc1e110d300;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git ixgb: fix link down initial state As reported by Andrew Lutomirski 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. in addition this driver appeared to need a netif_start_queue at the end of open. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Reported-by: Andrew Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c index 4a0826b8f6f2..ff741ca110f5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c @@ -471,10 +471,8 @@ ixgb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) if (err) goto err_register; - /* we're going to reset, so assume we have no link for now */ - + /* carrier off reporting is important to ethtool even BEFORE open */ netif_carrier_off(netdev); - netif_stop_queue(netdev); DPRINTK(PROBE, INFO, "Intel(R) PRO/10GbE Network Connection\n"); ixgb_check_options(adapter); @@ -592,6 +590,8 @@ ixgb_open(struct net_device *netdev) if (err) goto err_setup_tx; + netif_carrier_off(netdev); + /* allocate receive descriptors */ err = ixgb_setup_rx_resources(adapter); @@ -602,6 +602,8 @@ ixgb_open(struct net_device *netdev) if (err) goto err_up; + netif_start_queue(netdev); + return 0; err_up: