[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: rtl8169: fix switching between adapters

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 06/02/2016 04:06 PM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 04/26/2016 04:05 PM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>>>>
>>>> The rtl8169 driver uses a global variable to store the register address
>>>> of the adapter being operated upon. This is updated to point at the
>>>> correct adapter when sending or receiving a packet, or shutting down the
>>>> adapter, but not when initializing the adapter. Consequently, switching
>>>> between different adapters within the same U-Boot runtime does not work
>>>> correctly since the driver programs the wrong registers during
>>>> rtl8169_eth_start() -> rtl8169_common_start() -> rtl8169_hw_start().
>>>>
>>>> Note that since rtl8169_eth_stop() does set the global variable, the
>>>> second consecutive attempt to use the "new" adapter did work even before
>>>> this patch, because each time network usage is shut down, the network
>>>> core calls stop, which sets the variable so that the next start does
>>>> actually initialize the hardware, and the adapter works.
>>>>
>>>> Equally, rtl8169_eth_probe() calls rtl_init() which sets the global, so
>>>> if using only a single device, or if picking the "right" device (based on
>>>> probe order) when multiple devices are present, ioaddr will already be
>>>> set
>>>> correctly from the get-go, so the issue does not occur.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks reasonable to me.
>>> Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
>>
>>
>> Joe,
>>
>> I assume you'll be applying this?
>
> Yes.

I don't see this applied anywhere yet.