The patch titled
skge: don't mark carrier down at start
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
skge-dont-mark-carrier-down-at-start.patch
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Subject: skge: don't mark carrier down at start
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: George Billios <gbillios@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/skge.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/net/skge.c~skge-dont-mark-carrier-down-at-start drivers/net/skge.c
--- a/drivers/net/skge.c~skge-dont-mark-carrier-down-at-start
+++ a/drivers/net/skge.c
@@ -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;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
skge-dont-mark-carrier-down-at-start.patch
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