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authorHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>2011-09-28 13:24:15 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-09-29 17:34:50 -0700
commitd515d0ff36a7afd528f32e3511780ad8385d957e (patch)
tree3c2199fca9e66c3783c06c7d365f064d1d03d7bf
parent657d1b0dfc97e2256257320f0818e21cf360d0ce (diff)
staging: hv: remove the carrier status check from netvsc_open()
Checking carrier status in netvsc_open() is not necessary. Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/hv/TODO2
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c19
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/TODO b/drivers/staging/hv/TODO
index fcc57c245803..ed4d63619df2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/TODO
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
TODO:
- audit the network driver
- - checking for carrier inside open is wrong, network device API
- confusion??
- audit the scsi driver
Please send patches for this code to Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
index 69c233e5fbe0..561ba58f0e1f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -69,20 +69,15 @@ static int netvsc_open(struct net_device *net)
struct hv_device *device_obj = net_device_ctx->device_ctx;
int ret = 0;
- if (netif_carrier_ok(net)) {
- /* Open up the device */
- ret = rndis_filter_open(device_obj);
- if (ret != 0) {
- netdev_err(net, "unable to open device (ret %d).\n",
- ret);
- return ret;
- }
-
- netif_start_queue(net);
- } else {
- netdev_err(net, "unable to open device...link is down.\n");
+ /* Open up the device */
+ ret = rndis_filter_open(device_obj);
+ if (ret != 0) {
+ netdev_err(net, "unable to open device (ret %d).\n", ret);
+ return ret;
}
+ netif_start_queue(net);
+
return ret;
}