From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3][BNX2]: Fix remote PHY media detection problems. Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20071010.161639.66656718.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1192060892.6534.4.camel@dell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: mchan@broadcom.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60264 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751771AbXJJXQg (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:16:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1192060892.6534.4.camel@dell> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: "Michael Chan" Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:01:32 -0700 > [BNX2]: Fix remote PHY media detection problems. > > The remote PHY media type and link status can change between > ->probe() and ->open(). For correct operation, we need to get the > new status again during ->open(). > > The ethtool link test and loopback test are also fixed to work with > remote PHY. PHY loopback is simply skipped when remote PHY is > present. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan Applied.