From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/4] igb: do not force retry count to 1 on 82580 phy Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:55:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20091223.205527.35050037.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20091223232047.16146.35264.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20091223232107.16146.15573.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40582 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751574AbZLXEzZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:55:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091223232107.16146.15573.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:21:07 -0800 > From: Alexander Duyck > > This change resolves an issue seen in some configurations where the link > may drop to 100Mb/s even though the link itself supports 1000Mb/s. The > issue was root caused to the fact that we were only trying the link once. > Now instead we will try up to 5 attempts on a faulty cable before > downshifting to 100Mb/s. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.