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skge: don't mark carrier down at start

Message ID 20110223164449.2a5206b8@nehalam
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Stephen Hemminger Feb. 24, 2011, 12:44 a.m. UTC 
The API for network devices has changed so that setting carrier
off at probe is no longer required. This should fix the IPv6 addrconf
issue.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>


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Patch

--- a/drivers/net/skge.c	2011-02-23 16:40:36.351045685 -0800
+++ b/drivers/net/skge.c	2011-02-23 16:40:48.315136410 -0800
@@ -3856,9 +3856,6 @@  static struct net_device *skge_devinit(s
 	memcpy_fromio(dev->dev_addr, hw->regs + B2_MAC_1 + port*8, ETH_ALEN);
 	memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
 
-	/* device is off until link detection */
-	netif_carrier_off(dev);
-
 	return dev;
 }