From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Grant Grundler" <iod00d@hp.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3: Fix link failure in 5701
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:55:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1118357752.5838.13.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050609232830.GC12434@esmail.cup.hp.com>
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:28 -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Michael, David,
> I confirmed this patch in fact fixes the problem on currently
> shipping rx7620 and rx8620 "Core LAN" cards. I expected it would
> but now have nice warm fuzzies that it really 100% does.
Thanks for testing, Grant.
>
> One minor issue: I unloaded the unpatched tg3 v3.29 driver and
> then did not get a link when loaded the patched tg3 v3.30 driver.
> Unplugging and replugging the cable made this work.
> v3.30 continued to work fine after a reboot.
>
This is odd. May be the link partner is in a bad state when previously
connected to unpatched tg3, and requires unplug to get out of that
state.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-09 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-06 19:42 [PATCH] tg3: Fix link failure in 5701 Michael Chan
2005-06-06 22:16 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 22:26 ` Grant Grundler
2005-06-06 22:27 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 23:28 ` Grant Grundler
2005-06-09 22:55 ` Michael Chan [this message]
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