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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c index 0d9a3ac043a6..d5d9589ae086 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c @@ -3459,6 +3459,8 @@ static int ixgbe_open(struct net_device *netdev) if (test_bit(__IXGBE_TESTING, &adapter->state)) return -EBUSY; + netif_carrier_off(netdev); + /* allocate transmit descriptors */ err = ixgbe_setup_all_tx_resources(adapter); if (err) @@ -4772,13 +4774,14 @@ static int __devinit ixgbe_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, /* reset the hardware with the new settings */ hw->mac.ops.start_hw(hw); - netif_carrier_off(netdev); - strcpy(netdev->name, "eth%d"); err = register_netdev(netdev); if (err) goto err_register; + /* carrier off reporting is important to ethtool even BEFORE open */ + netif_carrier_off(netdev); + #ifdef CONFIG_IXGBE_DCA if (dca_add_requester(&pdev->dev) == 0) { adapter->flags |= IXGBE_FLAG_DCA_ENABLED; |