[PATCH 7/9] [ETH]: Start net device with carrier down

[Trent Piepho <tpiepho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Because it _is_ down when the device starts.

The device's carrier status is controlled via the functions
netif_carrier_on() and netif_carrier_off().  These set or clear a bit
indicating the lower level link aka carrier is down, and if the state
changed, they fire off a routing netlink event.

The problem is that when the device is first created and opened, the state
bit indicating the carrier is down isn't set, i.e. the state is wrong.
When the carrier comes up for the first time no netlink event is sent,
since the device state indicated the carrier was already up.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andy Fleming <afleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ethernet/eth.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
index a80839b..cdba6d0 100644
--- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ void ether_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->addr_len		= ETH_ALEN;
 	dev->tx_queue_len	= 1000;	/* Ethernet wants good queues */
 	dev->flags		= IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_MULTICAST;
+	dev->state		= 1 << __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER;
 
 	memset(dev->broadcast, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN);
 
-- 
1.5.4.1

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