From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/2] e1000e: Reset 82577/82578 PHY before first PHY register read Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 01:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100506.012301.55861124.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100506075959.8910.13493.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100506080025.8910.45557.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, bruce.w.allan@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34246 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754768Ab0EFIWy (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2010 04:22:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100506080025.8910.45557.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 01:00:27 -0700 > From: Bruce Allan > > Reset the PHY before first accessing it. Doing so, ensure that the PHY is > in a known good state before we read/write PHY registers. This fixes a > driver probe failure. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.