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

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:32:03 -0700

> This breaks devices that never call netif_carrier_on.
> 
> Standard practice is to call netif_carrier_off after allocation but before
> register_netdev

Or in ->open()
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