Commit b4730016 authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller

net: Do not fire linkwatch events until the device is registered.

Several device drivers try to do things like netif_carrier_off()
before register_netdev() is invoked.  This is bogus, but too many
drivers do this to fix them all up in one go.
Reported-by: default avatarFolkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 566521d6
......@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ static void dev_watchdog_down(struct net_device *dev)
void netif_carrier_on(struct net_device *dev)
{
if (test_and_clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER, &dev->state)) {
if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
return;
linkwatch_fire_event(dev);
if (netif_running(dev))
__netdev_watchdog_up(dev);
......@@ -285,8 +287,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_carrier_on);
*/
void netif_carrier_off(struct net_device *dev)
{
if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER, &dev->state))
if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER, &dev->state)) {
if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
return;
linkwatch_fire_event(dev);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_carrier_off);
......
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