[PATCH 3/4]bnx2x: Calling netif_carrier_off at the end of the probe
From: Eilon Greenstein <hidden>
Date: 2008-11-03 16:11:37
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
netif_carrier_off was called too early at the probe. In case of failure or simply bad timing, this can cause a fatal error since linkwatch_event might run too soon. Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <redacted> --- drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c b/drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c
index 61152e1..5b013d8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c@@ -10206,8 +10206,6 @@ static int __devinit bnx2x_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, return -ENOMEM; } - netif_carrier_off(dev); - bp = netdev_priv(dev); bp->msglevel = debug;
@@ -10231,6 +10229,8 @@ static int __devinit bnx2x_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, goto init_one_exit; } + netif_carrier_off(dev); + bp->common.name = board_info[ent->driver_data].name; printk(KERN_INFO "%s: %s (%c%d) PCI-E x%d %s found at mem %lx," " IRQ %d, ", dev->name, bp->common.name,
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