From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:30:54 +0800 > Call netif_carrier_on() after register_device(). Otherwise it won't work since > the device was still in NETREG_UNINITIALIZED state. > > Fixes a68f9614614749727286f675d15f1e09d13cb54a > (hyperv: Fix race between probe and open calls) > > Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Di Nie <dnie@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Di Nie <dnie@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> A device up can occur at the moment you call register_netdevice(), therefore that up call can see the carrier as down and fail or similar. So you really cannot resolve the carrier to be on in this way. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
