From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/17] sfc: Stop masking out XGMII faults over reconfigures Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:45:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100428.124535.59660095.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1272482722.2549.17.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> <1272482874.2549.20.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com To: bhutchings@solarflare.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49105 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753590Ab0D1Tpb (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:45:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1272482874.2549.20.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:27:54 +0100 > From: Steve Hodgson > > The aim of this code was to avoid a spurious XGMII fault over a MAC > reconfigure. It's less relevant now that the PHY reconfigure isn't > called from the MAC reconfigure. > > After applying this patch, our link stress test passed 48 hours of > testing without ever resetting the PHY. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Applied.