e1000e: indicate link down at load

As reported by Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com>

All the intel wired ethernet drivers were calling netif_carrier_off
and netif_stop_queue (or variants) before calling register_netdevice

This is incorrect behavior as was pointed out by davem, and causes
ifconfig and friends to report a strange state before first link
after the driver was loaded, since without a netif_carrier_off, the stack
assumes carrier_on, but before register_netdev, netlink messages are not
sent out telling link state.

This apparently confused *some* versions of networkmanager.

Andy tested this for e1000e and confirmed it was working for him.

see thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=123946479705636&w=2

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
index 1693ed116b16..c0ff550262ff 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -3072,6 +3072,8 @@ static int e1000_open(struct net_device *netdev)
         if (test_bit(__E1000_TESTING, &adapter->state))
                 return -EBUSY;
 
+        netif_carrier_off(netdev);
+
         /* allocate transmit descriptors */
         err = e1000e_setup_tx_resources(adapter);
         if (err)
@@ -5037,15 +5039,14 @@ static int __devinit e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
         if (!(adapter->flags & FLAG_HAS_AMT))
                 e1000_get_hw_control(adapter);
 
-        /* tell the stack to leave us alone until e1000_open() is called */
-        netif_carrier_off(netdev);
-        netif_tx_stop_all_queues(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);
+
         e1000_print_device_info(adapter);
 
         return 0;