This patch moves the MAC HW initialization and the HW feature verification from the open to the probe function as D. Miller suggested. So the patch actually reorganizes and tidies-up some parts of the driver and indeed fixes some problem when tune its HW features. These can be overwritten by looking at the HW cap register at run-time and that generated problems. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Reviewed-by: Francesco Virlinzi <francesco.virlinzi@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>