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2009-11-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c All CDC ethernet devices of type USB_CLASS_COMM need to use '&mbm_info'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29e1000e: rework disable K1 at 1000Mbps for 82577/82578Bruce Allan
This patch reworks a previous workaround (commit 7d3cabbcc) for an issue in hardware where noise on the interconnect between the MAC and PHY could be generated by a lower power mode (K1) at 1000Mbps resulting in bad packets. Disable K1 while at 1000 Mbps but keep it enabled for 10/100Mbps and when the cable is disconnected. The original version of this workaround was found to be incomplete. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29e1000e: config PHY via software after resetsBruce Allan
On PCH-based (82577/82578) and some ICH8-based parts (82566) there is an issue with the hardware automatically configuring the PHY with contents from the EEPROM after the PHY is reset, so do the configuration by the driver instead. This was already similarly done for some 82566 parts in e1000_phy_hw_reset_ich8lan() but needs to be done after other resets, so move the PHY configuration code to its own function and call after all PHY resets. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29e1000e: flow control doesn't re-enableBruce Allan
When changing flow control (pause) parameters, the flow control thresholds (i.e. when to send XON/XOFF frames) may not be setup correctly on parts with copper media. Call the existing e1000_set_fc_watermarks() function to set these thresholds. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-27Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/sh_eth.c
2009-10-26e1000e: allow for swflag to be held over consecutive PHY accessesBruce Allan
PCH-based parts (82577/82578) and some ICH8-based parts (82566) need to hold the swflag (sw/fw/hw hardware semaphore) over consecutive PHY accesses in order to perform sw-driven PHY configuration during initialization to workaround known hardware issues (see follow-on patch). This patch provides new PHY read/write functions (and function pointers) that will allow accessing the PHY registers assuming the swflag has already been acquired. The actual PHY register access code has moved into helper functions that are called with a flag indicating whether or not the swflag has already been acquired and acquires/releases it if not. The functions called from within the updated PHY access functions had to be updated to assume the swflag was already acquired, and other functions that called those functions were also updated to acquire/release the swflag. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-26e1000e: separate mutex usage between NVM and PHY/CSR register for ICHx/PCHBruce Allan
Accesses to NVM and PHY/CSR registers on ICHx/PCH-based parts are protected from concurrent accesses with a mutex that is acquired when the access is initiated and released when the access has completed. However, the two types of accesses should not be protected by the same mutex because the driver may have to access the NVM while already holding the mutex over several consecutive PHY/CSR accesses which would result in livelock. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-26e1000e: 82577/82578 requires a different method to configure LPLUBruce Allan
Unlike previous ICHx-based parts, the PCH-based parts (82577/82578) require LPLU (Low Power Link Up, or "reverse auto-negotiation") to be configured in the PHY rather than the MAC. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-26e1000e: increase swflag acquisition timeout for ICHx/PCHBruce Allan
In some conditions (e.g. when AMT is enabled on the system), it is possible to take an extended period of time to for the driver to acquire the sw/fw/hw hardware semaphore used to protect against concurrent access of a shared resource (e.g. PHY registers). This could cause PHY registers to not get configured properly resulting in link issues. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-26e1000e: clear PHY wakeup bit after LCD reset on 82577/82578Bruce Allan
Performing a dummy read of the PHY Wakeup Control (WUC) register clears the wakeup enable bit set by an PHY reset. If this bit remains set, link problems may occur. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-22e1000e: reset the PHY on 82577/82578 when going to SxBruce Allan
The PHY on 82577/82578 parts needs a soft reset when transitioning to Sx state in order for the PHY write which disables gigabit speed to take effect. Gigabit speed must be disabled in order for the PHY writes to registers on page 800 (the wakeup control registers) to work as expected otherwise the system might not wake via WoL. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13e1000e: Fix erroneous display of stats by ethtool -SAjit Khaparde
Commit fd8235bb overlooked the way offsets for netdev stats were considered. Because of this some of the stats shown by ethtool -S were wrong. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13net: Use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07e1000e: Use the instance of net_device_stats from net_device.Ajit Khaparde
Since net_device has an instance of net_device_stats, we can remove the instance of this from the private adapter structure. Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-04e1000e: swap max hw supported frame size between 82574 and 82583Alexander Duyck
There appears to have been a mixup in the max supported jumbo frame size between 82574 and 82583 which ended up disabling jumbo frames on the 82574 as a result. This patch swaps the two so that this issue is resolved. This patch fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14261 Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-02e1000e/igb/ixgbe: Don't report an error if devices don't support AERFrans Pop
The only error returned by pci_{en,dis}able_pcie_error_reporting() is -EIO which simply means that Advanced Error Reporting is not supported. There is no need to report that, so remove the error check from e1000e, igb and ixgbe. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03netdev: Remove redundant checks for CAP_NET_ADMIN in MDIO implementationsBen Hutchings
dev_ioctl() already checks capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) before calling the driver's implementation of MDIO ioctls. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-02Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/yellowfin.c
2009-09-01intel: convert drivers to netdev_tx_tStephen Hemminger
Get rid of some bogus return wrapping as well. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-15e1000e: fix use of pci_enable_pcie_error_reportingXiaotian Feng
commit 111b9dc5 ("e1000e: add aer support") introduces pcie aer support for e1000e, but it is not reasonable to disable it in e1000_remove but enable it in e1000_resume. This patch enables aer support in e1000_probe. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-15e1000e: WoL does not work on 82577/82578 with manageability enabledBruce Allan
With manageability (Intel AMT) enabled via BIOS, PHY wakeup does not get configured on newer parts which use PHY wakeup vs. MAC wakeup which causes WoL to not work. The driver should configure PHY wakeup whether or not manageability is enabled. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-09e1000e: fix potential NVM corruption on ICH9 with 8K bank sizeBruce Allan
The bank offset was being incorrectly calculated on ICH9 parts with a bank size of 8K (instead of the more common 4K bank) which would cause any NVM writes to be done on the wrong address after switching from bank 1 to bank 0. Additionally, assume we are meant to use bank 0 if a valid bank is not detected, and remove the unnecessary acquisition of the SW/FW/HW semaphore when writing to the shadow ram version of the NVM image. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-09e1000e: fix acquisition of SW/FW/HW semaphore for ICHx partsBruce Allan
For ICHx parts, write the EXTCNF_CTRL.SWFLAG bit once when trying to acquire the SW/FW/HW semaphore instead of multiple times to prevent the hardware from having problems (especially for systems with manageability enabled), and extend the timeout for the hardware to set the SWFLAG bit. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-03e1000e: disable K1 at 1000Mbps for 82577/82578Bruce Allan
This workaround is required for an issue in hardware where noise on the interconnect between the MAC and PHY could be generated by a lower power mode (K1) at 1000Mbps resulting in bad packets. Disable K1 while at 1000 Mbps but keep it enabled for 10/100Mbps and when the cable is disconnected. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-03e1000e: delay second read of PHY_STATUS register on failure of first readBruce Allan
Some PHYs may require two reads of the PHY_STATUS register to determine the link status. If the PHY is being accessed by another thread it is possible the first read could timeout and fail. In this case, put a delay in so the second read will pick up the correct link status. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-03e1000e: prevent NVM corruption on sectors larger than 4KBruce Allan
Limit NVM writes to 4K sections to prevent NVM corruption on larger sector allocations (up to 64K). Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-03e1000e: do not write SmartSpeed register bits on parts without supportBruce Allan
The driver was accessing register bits for features on parts that do not support that feature. This could cause problems in the hardware. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-03e1000e: delay after LCD reset and proper checks for PHY configuration doneBruce Allan
A previous workaround for 82578 to avoid link stall causes some PHY registers to get cleared inadvertently. Add a delay after all LCD resets to make sure PHY registers are in a stable state before continuing. Also, after resets check the EEC register for the state of PHY configuration performed by the MAC for ICH9 and earlier parts (as done before), but check the LAN_INIT_DONE bit in the STATUS register for ICH10 and newer parts (EEC doesn't exist in these newer parts). Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-03e1000e: PHY loopback broken on 82578Bruce Allan
PHY loopback on 82578 fails to work as a result of flushing the packets in the FIFO buffer in the link stall workaround. Don't perform the workaround if in PHY loopback mode. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-30e1000e: io_error_detected callback should return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECTMike Mason
on permanent failure PCI drivers that implement the io_error_detected callback should return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT if the state passed in is pci_channel_io_perm_failure. This state is not checked in many of the network drivers. This patch fixes the omission in the e1000e driver. Signed-off-by: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-19e1000e: stop unnecessary polling when using msi-xAndy Gospodarek
The last hunk of this commit: commit 12d04a3c12b420f23398b4d650127642469a60a6 Author: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Date: Wed Mar 25 22:05:03 2009 +0000 e1000e: commonize tx cleanup routine to match e1000 & igb changed the logic for determining if we should call napi_complete or not at then end of a napi poll. If the NIC is using MSI-X with no work to do in ->poll, net_rx_action can just spin indefinitely on older kernels and for 2 jiffies on newer kernels since napi_complete is never called and budget isn't decremented. Discovered and verified while testing driver backport to an older kernel. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-15Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c net/core/drop_monitor.c net/core/net-traces.c
2009-06-12trivial: fix typos s/paramter/parameter/ and s/excute/execute/ in ↵Martin Olsson
documentation and source comments. Signed-off-by: Martin Olsson <martin@minimum.se> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-09e1000e: Expose MDI-X status via ethtool changeChaitanya Lala
Ethtool is a standard way of getting information about ethernet interfaces. We enhance ethtool kernel interface & e1000e to make the MDI-X status readable via ethtool in userspace. Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Lala <clala@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09e1000e: Call e1000e_config_collision_dist() after TCTL has been setSimon Horman
e1000e_config_collision_dist() sets tctl, but subsequently tctl is overwritten. It seems to me that as things stand the call to e1000e_config_collision_dist() has no effect and should either be removed or moved down a little bit. This kernel patch takes the latter option. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09e1000e: Fixes possible phy corrupton on 82571 designs.Dave Graham
Phy corruption has been observed on 2-port 82571 adapters, and is root-caused to lack of synchronization between the 2 driver instances, which conflict when attempting to access the phy via the single MDIC register. A semaphore exists for this purpose, and is now used on these designs. Because PXE &/or EFI boot code (which we cannot expect to be built with this fix) may leave the inter-instance semaphore in an invalid initial state when the driver first loads, this fix also includes a one-time (per driver load) fix-up of the semaphore initial state. Signed-off-by: dave graham <david.graham@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08net: skb_shared_info optimizationEric Dumazet
skb_dma_unmap() is quite expensive for small packets, because we use two different cache lines from skb_shared_info. One to access nr_frags, one to access dma_maps[0] Instead of dma_maps being an array of MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1 elements, let dma_head alone in a new dma_head field, close to nr_frags, to reduce cache lines misses. Tested on my dev machine (bnx2 & tg3 adapters), nice speedup ! Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03e1000e: bump the version numberBruce Allan
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03e1000e: workaround a Tx hang on 82577/82578Bruce Allan
With bi-directional stress traffic, the receiver could hang causing the hardware to stop and a "Detected Tx Unit Hang" message dumped to the system logfile. Temporarily workaround this issue by disabling Tx flow control by default. The issue is currently being investigated and a follow-on patch will be provided to revert this when it is resolved. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03e1000e: add support for 82577/82578 GbE LOM partsBruce Allan
This patch provides support for the next generation Intel desktop and mobile gigabit ethernet LOM adapters. These adapters are the follow-on parts to the LOMs tied to the prior ICH chipsets and are comprised of a MAC in the PCH chipset and an external PHY (82577 for mobile and 82578 for desktop versions). New features consist of PHY wakeup to save power by completely turning off the MAC while in Sx state, and 4K jumbo frames. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03e1000e: specify max supported frame size in adapter structBruce Allan
By putting the maximum frame size supported by the hardware into the adapter structure, the change_mtu entry point function can be cleaned up of checks for all the different max frame sizes supported by Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03e1000e: correct flow control thresholdsBruce Allan
The flow control thresholds, i.e. high and low watermarks of the Rx FIFO for when the hardware should transmit PAUSE frames (XON and XOFF, respectively), need to be tuned for more efficient use of the FIFO. The logic to set the thresholds for parts that support early-receive (ERT) was also wrong in that it should check whether jumbo frames are in use. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03e1000e: do not attempt to disable smart powerdown if not supportedBruce Allan
During reset, the driver was attempting to disable the Smart Powerdown feature even if the part does not support Smart Powerdown. Check for support before attempting to disable the feature. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03e1000e: enable CRC stripping by defaultBruce Allan
CRC stripping should be enabled by default but was not if it was not specified as a module parameter. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29net: dont update dev->trans_startEric Dumazet
Second round of drivers for Gb cards (and NIU one I forgot in the 10GB round) Now that core network takes care of trans_start updates, dont do it in drivers themselves, if possible. Drivers can avoid one cache miss (on dev->trans_start) in their start_xmit() handler. Exceptions are NETIF_F_LLTX drivers Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-26igb/e1000e: update PSSR_MDIX value to reflect correct bitAlexander Duyck
The phy port status register has the MDI-X status bit on bit 11, not bit 3 as is currently setup in the define. This patch corrects that so the correct bit is checked on igp PHY types. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Acked-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-07e1000/e1000e/igb/ixgb: don't txhang after link downJesse Brandeburg
after the recent changes to wired drivers to use only netif_carrier_off the driver can have outstanding tx work to complete that will never complete once link is down. Since the intel hardware will hold this tx work forever, the driver notices a tx timeout condition internally and might try to instigate printk and reset of the part with a netif_stop_queue, which doesn't work because link is down. Don't bother arming to tx hang detection when link is down. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-22e1000/e1000e/igb/ixgb: do not use netif_wake_queue un-necessarilyJesse Brandeburg
It was pointed out that the Intel wired ethernet drivers do not need to wake the tx queue since netif_carrier_on/off will take care of the qdisc management in order to guarantee the correct handling of the transmit routine enable state. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-21Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/core/dev.c
2009-04-20e1000e: indicate link down at loadJesse Brandeburg
As reported by Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com> All the intel wired ethernet drivers were calling netif_carrier_off and netif_stop_queue (or variants) before calling register_netdevice This is incorrect behavior as was pointed out by davem, and causes ifconfig and friends to report a strange state before first link after the driver was loaded, since without a netif_carrier_off, the stack assumes carrier_on, but before register_netdev, netlink messages are not sent out telling link state. This apparently confused *some* versions of networkmanager. Andy tested this for e1000e and confirmed it was working for him. see thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=123946479705636&w=2 Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>