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e1000e: link reporting problems
authorBruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:23:34 +0000 (23:23 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:33:52 +0000 (11:33 -0800)
commit708de907bcbc15ad577d23da84c4d2ae46352541
treee7334067ecf1177be7fcf125e787f04820ea7a81
parent89ac710d2a718133b61846534f99ce4fae35a7e6
e1000e: link reporting problems

Copper links with WoL or management enabled (any condition which prevents
the phy from being powered down when the interface is taken down) were
always reporting link-up when the interface had been taken down. This
is because when the interface is taken down (ifconfig ethx down),
interrupts are disabled. With no interrupts, there is no LSC interrupt,
which is normally required to set "get_link_status", which instructs the
driver to query the device for link state. The fix is to force
get_link_status to true if the interface is not up.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c