Re: [PATCH] mlx4: set carrier off after register netdev

[Min Zhang]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 11:28 -0700, Min Zhang wrote:
> > ifconfig mlx4_en port reported RUNNING even though the link was down.
> > 
> > mlx4_en_init_netdev didn't initialize the dev operstate properly so
> > the operstate stayed as default IF_OPER_UNKNOWN, then ifconfig treated
> > the UNKNOWN as RUNNING state for backward compatiblity per RFC2863.
> > 
> > The fix calls netif_carrier_off which is supposed to set operstate
> > after register_netdev. Calling it before register_netdev has no effect
> > since the dev->state is still NETREG_UNINITIALIZED
> > 
> > Tested by removing the physical link signal to the mellanox 10G port,
> > modprobe mlx4_en, then ifconfig up. Verify there is no RUNNING status.
> [...]
> 
> This was supposed to be fixed by:
> 
> commit 8f4cccbbd92f2ad0ddbbc498ef7cee2a1c3defe9
> Author: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Aug 20 22:16:51 2012 +0100
> 
>     net: Set device operstate at registration time
> 
> Does that not work for mlx4_en, for some reason?
> 
> Ben.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
> Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
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>

Indeed, commit 8f4cccbbd92f2ad0ddbbc498ef7cee2a1c3defe9 does fix the issue 
in mlx4. I didn't have the newest net/core. Therefore ignore my mlx4 fix. 
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