"ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready" with IPv6

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 18:15 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 05:47 PM, Arvid Brodin :
> > (Added MACB "patch" contact Nicolas Ferre to CC list.)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> (adding linux-arm-kernel)
> 
> > On 2012-06-29 17:24, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 02:36 +0000, Arvid Brodin wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> After 'ip link set eth0 up' on an avr32 board (network driver macb), the device ends up in
> >>> operational mode "UNKNOWN":
> >>>
> >>> # ip link
> >>> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
> >>>     link/ether 00:24:74:00:17:9d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >>>
> >>> Unplugging and plugging in the network cable gets the device to mode "UP".
> >>>
> >>> This is a problem for me because I'm trying to use this device as a "slave" device (for a
> >>> virtual HSR device*) and I need to be able to decide if the slave device is operational or
> >>> not.
> >>>
> >>> Following Stephen's advice here:
> >>> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/9/24/3398834 I checked the macb.c code
> >>> and noticed they do not call netif_carrier_off() neither before register_netdev() nor in
> >>> dev_open().
> >
> >> It should be called after register_netdev() and before the driver's
> >> ndo_open implementation returns.
> 
> After having read several drivers, it seems that some are calling
> netif_carrier_off() *before* register_netdev() and some *after*... What
> is the proper way?
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The latter is correct; the former is a bug that is tolerated for now:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/111355/

Ben.

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