From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:52:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: skge: don't mark carrier down at start
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.38-rc8~29^2~33
X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdf64c803e6cfec72259f7bb2654261584bb80a8;p=~andy%2Flinux

skge: don't mark carrier down at start

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.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29612

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Reported-by: George Billios <gbillios@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/skge.c b/drivers/net/skge.c
index 42daf98ba73..35b28f42d20 100644
--- a/drivers/net/skge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/skge.c
@@ -3856,9 +3856,6 @@ static struct net_device *skge_devinit(struct skge_hw *hw, int port,
 	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;
 }