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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-11-19 15:33:54 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-11-19 15:33:54 -0800 |
| commit | b47300168e770b60ab96c8924854c3b0eb4260eb (patch) | |
| tree | 8dcdf57ff27c503cf365ae5a98cf30626612b381 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 566521d63720ab47576afb85147e5652993bf1e6 (diff) | |
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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: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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