David S. Miller b47300168e net: Do not fire linkwatch events until the device is registered. ...

Several device drivers try to do things like netif_carrier_off()
before register_netdev() is invoked.  This is bogus, but too many
drivers do this to fix them all up in one go.

Reported-by: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2008-11-19 15:33:54 -08:00

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