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authorTushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>2012-07-31 02:02:43 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-15 08:10:33 -0700
commit733e9ad978a1530328ff78aff3186c20000e5b4e (patch)
tree537b61182710ffacc040bb15b9885c7bc03422c4
parent66f3d999759fd703bf43acc0bd58b422701c77b4 (diff)
e1000e: NIC goes up and immediately goes down
commit b7ec70be01a87f2c85df3ae11046e74f9b67e323 upstream. Found that commit d478eb44 was a bad commit. If the link partner is transmitting codeword (even if NULL codeword), then the RXCW.C bit will be set so check for RXCW.CW is unnecessary. Ref: RH BZ 840642 Reported-by: Fabio Futigami <ffutigam@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com> CC: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c
index a9dd6a92cf5..c098b2495b7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c
@@ -1582,10 +1582,8 @@ static s32 e1000_check_for_serdes_link_82571(struct e1000_hw *hw)
* auto-negotiation in the TXCW register and disable
* forced link in the Device Control register in an
* attempt to auto-negotiate with our link partner.
- * If the partner code word is null, stop forcing
- * and restart auto negotiation.
*/
- if ((rxcw & E1000_RXCW_C) || !(rxcw & E1000_RXCW_CW)) {
+ if (rxcw & E1000_RXCW_C) {
/* Enable autoneg, and unforce link up */
ew32(TXCW, mac->txcw);
ew32(CTRL, (ctrl & ~E1000_CTRL_SLU));