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authorOskar Schirmer <oskar@linutronix.de>2010-10-07 02:30:30 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-10-10 21:12:27 -0700
commit03c698c93fc15d976738a853a7ccb6ea26396003 (patch)
treeffb5de06aefd486cd5d0bd7d23b845ebcb1628fe /drivers/net
parent82553bb6218d2707d2e6446d7b2313dfd60b48a8 (diff)
net/fec: carrier off initially to avoid root mount failure
with hardware slow in negotiation, the system did freeze while trying to mount root on nfs at boot time. the link state has not been initialised so network stack tried to start transmission right away. this caused instant retries, as the driver solely stated business upon link down, rendering the system unusable. notify carrier off initially to prevent transmission until phylib will report link up. Signed-off-by: Oskar Schirmer <oskar@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/fec.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/fec.c b/drivers/net/fec.c
index 768b840aeb6..e83f67d22fe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fec.c
@@ -1311,6 +1311,9 @@ fec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (ret)
goto failed_mii_init;
+ /* Carrier starts down, phylib will bring it up */
+ netif_carrier_off(ndev);
+
ret = register_netdev(ndev);
if (ret)
goto failed_register;