ixgbe: fix link down initial state
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. Signed-off-by:Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Reported-by:
Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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