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authorTushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>2012-07-31 06:02:43 +0400
committerPeter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>2012-08-07 11:40:08 +0400
commitb7ec70be01a87f2c85df3ae11046e74f9b67e323 (patch)
tree046a28fb61ae7df7e3fe60451f8d69044f73e9c1 /drivers/net/ethernet
parent5d299f3d3c8a2fbc732b1bf03af36333ccec3130 (diff)
downloadlinux-b7ec70be01a87f2c85df3ae11046e74f9b67e323.tar.xz
e1000e: NIC goes up and immediately goes down
Found that commit d478eb44 was a bad commit. If the link partner is transmitting codeword (even if NULL codeword), then the RXCW.C bit will be set so check for RXCW.CW is unnecessary. Ref: RH BZ 840642 Reported-by: Fabio Futigami <ffutigam@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com> CC: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com> CC: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.38+] Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c
index 0b3bade957fd..2a4ded2fd6e5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c
@@ -1601,10 +1601,8 @@ static s32 e1000_check_for_serdes_link_82571(struct e1000_hw *hw)
* auto-negotiation in the TXCW register and disable
* forced link in the Device Control register in an
* attempt to auto-negotiate with our link partner.
- * If the partner code word is null, stop forcing
- * and restart auto negotiation.
*/
- if ((rxcw & E1000_RXCW_C) || !(rxcw & E1000_RXCW_CW)) {
+ if (rxcw & E1000_RXCW_C) {
/* Enable autoneg, and unforce link up */
ew32(TXCW, mac->txcw);
ew32(CTRL, (ctrl & ~E1000_CTRL_SLU));