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net/fec: carrier off initially to avoid root mount failure
authorOskar Schirmer <oskar@linutronix.de>
Thu, 7 Oct 2010 02:30:30 +0000 (02:30 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:12:27 +0000 (21:12 -0700)
commit03c698c93fc15d976738a853a7ccb6ea26396003
treeffb5de06aefd486cd5d0bd7d23b845ebcb1628fe
parent82553bb6218d2707d2e6446d7b2313dfd60b48a8
net/fec: carrier off initially to avoid root mount failure

with hardware slow in negotiation, the system did freeze
while trying to mount root on nfs at boot time.

the link state has not been initialised so network stack
tried to start transmission right away. this caused instant
retries, as the driver solely stated business upon link down,
rendering the system unusable.

notify carrier off initially to prevent transmission until
phylib will report link up.

Signed-off-by: Oskar Schirmer <oskar@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/fec.c