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net: Do not fire linkwatch events until the device is registered. 

Several device drivers try to do things like netif_carrier_off()
before register_netdev() is invoked.  This is bogus, but too many
drivers do this to fix them all up in one go.

Reported-by: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller 2008-11-19 15:33:54 -08:00
parent 566521d637
commit b47300168e
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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net/sched/sch_generic.c
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@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ static void dev_watchdog_down(struct net_device *dev)
void netif_carrier_on(struct net_device *dev)
{
if (test_and_clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER, &dev->state)) {
if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
return;
linkwatch_fire_event(dev);
if (netif_running(dev))
__netdev_watchdog_up(dev);
@ -285,8 +287,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_carrier_on);
*/
void netif_carrier_off(struct net_device *dev)
{
if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER, &dev->state))
if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER, &dev->state)) {
if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
return;
linkwatch_fire_event(dev);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_carrier_off);