From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:48:55 -0700 (PDT)

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> 
> Initialize vmxnet3 link state at probe time
> 
> This change initializes the state of link at the time when driver is
> loaded. The ethtool output for 'link detected' and 'link speed'
> is thus valid even before the interface is brought up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>

You should never, ever, call netif_start_queue() on a device which has
not been brought up.

But that is what this patch is doing.
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