Checking carrier status in netvsc_open() is not necessary.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/hv/TODO | 2 --
drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c | 19 +++++++------------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/TODO b/drivers/staging/hv/TODO
index fcc57c2..ed4d636 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/TODO
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
TODO:
- audit the network driver
- - checking for carrier inside open is wrong, network device API
- confusion??
- audit the scsi driver
Please send patches for this code to Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>,
diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
index 69c233e..561ba58 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -69,20 +69,15 @@ static int netvsc_open(struct net_device *net)
struct hv_device *device_obj = net_device_ctx->device_ctx;
int ret = 0;
- if (netif_carrier_ok(net)) {
- /* Open up the device */
- ret = rndis_filter_open(device_obj);
- if (ret != 0) {
- netdev_err(net, "unable to open device (ret %d).\n",
- ret);
- return ret;
- }
-
- netif_start_queue(net);
- } else {
- netdev_err(net, "unable to open device...link is down.\n");
+ /* Open up the device */
+ ret = rndis_filter_open(device_obj);
+ if (ret != 0) {
+ netdev_err(net, "unable to open device (ret %d).\n", ret);
+ return ret;
}
+ netif_start_queue(net);
+
return ret;
}
--
1.6.3.2
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