From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:13:17 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] b44: fix laptop carrier detect X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc2~250^2~8 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c35ca399e09828f3f6b40c0007a95a6582d90347;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] b44: fix laptop carrier detect On my laptop, the b44 device is created and the carrier state defaults to ON when created by alloc_etherdev. This means tools like NetworkManager see the carrier as On and try and bring the device up. The correct thing to do is mark the carrier as Off when device is created. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- diff --git a/drivers/net/b44.c b/drivers/net/b44.c index df9d6e80c4..c3267e4e1b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/b44.c +++ b/drivers/net/b44.c @@ -1399,7 +1399,6 @@ static int b44_open(struct net_device *dev) b44_init_rings(bp); b44_init_hw(bp); - netif_carrier_off(dev); b44_check_phy(bp); err = request_irq(dev->irq, b44_interrupt, SA_SHIRQ, dev->name, dev); @@ -1464,7 +1463,7 @@ static int b44_close(struct net_device *dev) #endif b44_halt(bp); b44_free_rings(bp); - netif_carrier_off(bp->dev); + netif_carrier_off(dev); spin_unlock_irq(&bp->lock); @@ -2000,6 +1999,8 @@ static int __devinit b44_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, dev->irq = pdev->irq; SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(dev, &b44_ethtool_ops); + netif_carrier_off(dev); + err = b44_get_invariants(bp); if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR PFX "Problem fetching invariants of chip, "