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Steve Glendinning committed 7bdd305e024
smsc75xx: mark link down on startup and let PHY interrupt deal with carrier changes This patch fixes the same issue as reported on smsc95xx, where the usb device is connected with no ethernet cable plugged-in. Without this patch sysfs reports the cable as present flag@flag-desktop:~$ cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier 1 while it's not: flag@flag-desktop:~$ sudo mii-tool eth0 eth0: no link Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>