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* [PATCH] forcedeth: Initialize link settings in every nv_open()
@ 2005-08-06 21:47 Manfred Spraul
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From: Manfred Spraul @ 2005-08-06 21:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Garzik; +Cc: Ayaz Abdulla, Netdev, cOzmIc.FI

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Rüdiger found a bug in nv_open that explains some of the reports
with duplex mismatches:
nv_open calls nv_update_link_speed for initializing the hardware link speed
registers. If current link setting matches the values in np->linkspeed and
np->duplex, then the function does nothing.
Usually, doing nothing is the right thing, but not in nv_open: During
nv_open, the registers must be initialized because the nic was reset.

The attached patch fixes that by setting np->linkspeed to an invalid value
before calling nv_update_link_speed from nv_open.

Signed-Off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>


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--- 2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2005-08-06 19:59:56.000000000 +0200
+++ build-2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2005-08-06 19:59:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@
  *      0.40: 19 Jul 2005: Add support for mac address change.
  *      0.41: 30 Jul 2005: Write back original MAC in nv_close instead
  *			   of nv_remove
+ *      0.42: 06 Aug 2005: Fix lack of link speed initialization
+ *			   in the second (and later) nv_open call
  *
  * Known bugs:
  * We suspect that on some hardware no TX done interrupts are generated.
@@ -2178,6 +2180,9 @@
 		writel(NVREG_MIISTAT_MASK, base + NvRegMIIStatus);
 		dprintk(KERN_INFO "startup: got 0x%08x.\n", miistat);
 	}
+	/* set linkspeed to invalid value, thus force nv_update_linkspeed
+	 * to init hw */
+	np->linkspeed = 0;
 	ret = nv_update_linkspeed(dev);
 	nv_start_rx(dev);
 	nv_start_tx(dev);

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