skge: don't mark carrier down at start

The API for network devices has changed so that setting carrier off at
probe is no longer required.  This should fix the IPv6 addrconf issue.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29612

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Reported-by: George Billios <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/skge.c b/drivers/net/skge.c
index 42daf98ba73636fc9a2b39f7e51397ab519be5b6..35b28f42d208ec7a413f37ee00165af6dfb887a7 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/skge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/skge.c
@@ -3856,9 +3856,6 @@ static struct net_device *skge_devinit(struct skge_hw *hw, int port,
        memcpy_fromio(dev->dev_addr, hw->regs + B2_MAC_1 + port*8, ETH_ALEN);
        memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
 
-       /* device is off until link detection */
-       netif_carrier_off(dev);
-
        return dev;
 }