From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] [BNX2]: Fix remote PHY initial link state. Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 16:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080502.165838.152824306.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1209595861.7941.61.camel@dell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, benli@broadcom.com, andy@greyhouse.net To: mchan@broadcom.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60375 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935580AbYEBX6i (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 19:58:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1209595861.7941.61.camel@dell> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Michael Chan" Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:51:01 -0700 > [BNX2]: Fix remote PHY initial link state. > > On some remote PHY blade systems, the driver receives no initial link > interrupt. As a result, the GMII/MII MAC mode does not get setup properly. > To fix this problem, we add an initial poll of the link state after chip > reset. > > With this change, the setting of the initial carrier state in the init > code can be eliminated. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Li Applied.