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[3/4] bnx2x: Calling netif_carrier_off at the end of the probe

Message ID 1225728682.14568.12.camel@lb-tlvb-eliezer
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Eilon Greenstein Nov. 3, 2008, 4:11 p.m. UTC
netif_carrier_off was called too early at the probe. In case of failure
or simply bad timing, this can cause a fatal error since linkwatch_event
might run too soon.

Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
---
 drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c b/drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c
index 61152e1..5b013d8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c
@@ -10206,8 +10206,6 @@  static int __devinit bnx2x_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	netif_carrier_off(dev);
-
 	bp = netdev_priv(dev);
 	bp->msglevel = debug;
 
@@ -10231,6 +10229,8 @@  static int __devinit bnx2x_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 		goto init_one_exit;
 	}
 
+	netif_carrier_off(dev);
+
 	bp->common.name = board_info[ent->driver_data].name;
 	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: %s (%c%d) PCI-E x%d %s found at mem %lx,"
 	       " IRQ %d, ", dev->name, bp->common.name,