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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c index 08c801490c7..ceaa5855467 100644 --- a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c @@ -1442,15 +1442,14 @@ static int __devinit igb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, * driver. */ igb_get_hw_control(adapter); - /* tell the stack to leave us alone until igb_open() is called */ - netif_carrier_off(netdev); - netif_tx_stop_all_queues(netdev); - strcpy(netdev->name, "eth%d"); err = register_netdev(netdev); if (err) goto err_register; + /* carrier off reporting is important to ethtool even BEFORE open */ + netif_carrier_off(netdev); + #ifdef CONFIG_IGB_DCA if (dca_add_requester(&pdev->dev) == 0) { adapter->flags |= IGB_FLAG_DCA_ENABLED; @@ -1699,6 +1698,8 @@ static int igb_open(struct net_device *netdev) if (test_bit(__IGB_TESTING, &adapter->state)) return -EBUSY; + netif_carrier_off(netdev); + /* allocate transmit descriptors */ err = igb_setup_all_tx_resources(adapter); if (err) |