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Re: [PATCH] net: phy: turn carrier off on phy attach

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From: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:57:18 +0100

> The operstate of a networking device initially IF_OPER_UNKNOWN aka
> "unknown", updated on carrier state changes (with carrier state being on
> by default). This means it will stay unknown unless the carrier state
> goes to off at some point, which is not the case if the phy is already
> up/connected at startup.
> 
> Explicitly turn off the carrier on phy attach, leaving the phy state
> machine to turn the carrier on when it has done the initial negotiation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk>

Applied, thank you.

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[PATCH] net: phy: turn carrier off on phy attach Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk> - 2016-01-14 22:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] net: phy: turn carrier off on phy attach David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-01-15 21:00 +0100

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