Commit e254e9bf authored Jun 08, 2005 by John W. Linville Committed by Jeff Garzik Jun 27, 2005

[PATCH] b44: check link state during open



Check the link state during b44_open.  This closes a 1 HZ window
that existed after b44_open ran but before the b44_timer handler ran,
during which ethtool would report "Link detected: yes" no matter what
the link state actually was.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 1fe2cb32

drivers/net/b44.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1285,6 +1285,9 @@ static int b44_open(struct net_device *dev)
		b44_init_hw(bp);
		bp->flags \|= B44_FLAG_INIT_COMPLETE;

		netif_carrier_off(dev);
		b44_check_phy(bp);

		spin_unlock_irq(&bp->lock);

		init_timer(&bp->timer);

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