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

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:20:55 -0700

> 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.

It works properly if the device driver does as it is supposed to,
which is invoke netif_carrier_off() in it's ->open() method in this
situation.

Please fix the drivers where this is not happening.
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