e1000e: indicate link down at load
As reported by Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com>
All the intel wired ethernet drivers were calling netif_carrier_off
and netif_stop_queue (or variants) before calling register_netdevice
This is incorrect behavior as was pointed out by davem, and causes
ifconfig and friends to report a strange state before first link
after the driver was loaded, since without a netif_carrier_off, the stack
assumes carrier_on, but before register_netdev, netlink messages are not
sent out telling link state.
This apparently confused *some* versions of networkmanager.
Andy tested this for e1000e and confirmed it was working for him.
see thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=123946479705636&w=2
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
index 1693ed1..c0ff550 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -3072,6 +3072,8 @@
if (test_bit(__E1000_TESTING, &adapter->state))
return -EBUSY;
+ netif_carrier_off(netdev);
+
/* allocate transmit descriptors */
err = e1000e_setup_tx_resources(adapter);
if (err)
@@ -5037,15 +5039,14 @@
if (!(adapter->flags & FLAG_HAS_AMT))
e1000_get_hw_control(adapter);
- /* tell the stack to leave us alone until e1000_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);
+
e1000_print_device_info(adapter);
return 0;