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+From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Sun Jul 2 03:51:13 2006
+Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:54:53 +0100
+From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
+To: stable@kernel.org
+Cc: romieu@fr.zoreil.com
+Subject: via-velocity: the link is not correctly detected when the device starts
+
+From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
+
+via-velocity: the link is not correctly detected when the device starts
+
+The patch fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6711
+
+Signed-off-by: Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>
+Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
+Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
+---
+
+---
+ drivers/net/via-velocity.c | 6 ++++++
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
+
+--- linux-2.6.17.3.orig/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
++++ linux-2.6.17.3/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
+@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ static void velocity_free_rd_ring(struct
+ static void velocity_free_tx_buf(struct velocity_info *vptr, struct velocity_td_info *);
+ static int velocity_soft_reset(struct velocity_info *vptr);
+ static void mii_init(struct velocity_info *vptr, u32 mii_status);
++static u32 velocity_get_link(struct net_device *dev);
+ static u32 velocity_get_opt_media_mode(struct velocity_info *vptr);
+ static void velocity_print_link_status(struct velocity_info *vptr);
+ static void safe_disable_mii_autopoll(struct mac_regs __iomem * regs);
+@@ -798,6 +799,9 @@ static int __devinit velocity_found1(str
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto err_iounmap;
+
++ if (velocity_get_link(dev))
++ netif_carrier_off(dev);
++
+ velocity_print_info(vptr);
+ pci_set_drvdata(pdev, dev);
+
+@@ -1653,8 +1657,10 @@ static void velocity_error(struct veloci
+
+ if (linked) {
+ vptr->mii_status &= ~VELOCITY_LINK_FAIL;
++ netif_carrier_on(vptr->dev);
+ } else {
+ vptr->mii_status |= VELOCITY_LINK_FAIL;
++ netif_carrier_off(vptr->dev);
+ }
+
+ velocity_print_link_status(vptr);