From: Jason Wang <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:30:54 +0800
> Call netif_carrier_on() after register_device(). Otherwise it won't work since > the device was still in NETREG_UNINITIALIZED state. > > Fixes a68f9614614749727286f675d15f1e09d13cb54a > (hyperv: Fix race between probe and open calls) > > Cc: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]> > Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]> > Reported-by: Di Nie <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Di Nie <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]> A device up can occur at the moment you call register_netdevice(), therefore that up call can see the carrier as down and fail or similar. So you really cannot resolve the carrier to be on in this way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
