dead network on JS21 with tg3 driver after flowcontrol changes

Matt Carlson mcarlson at broadcom.com
Fri May 16 03:15:20 EST 2008


If you were to start with the original file, does the following patch
fix the problem?


diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c
index 07b3f77..4c248d7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tg3.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tg3.c
@@ -3168,8 +3168,7 @@ static int tg3_setup_fiber_mii_phy(struct tg3 *tp, int force_reset)
 	err |= tg3_readphy(tp, MII_BMCR, &bmcr);
 
 	if ((tp->link_config.autoneg == AUTONEG_ENABLE) && !force_reset &&
-	    (tp->tg3_flags2 & TG3_FLG2_PARALLEL_DETECT) &&
-	     tp->link_config.flowctrl == tp->link_config.active_flowctrl) {
+	    (tp->tg3_flags2 & TG3_FLG2_PARALLEL_DETECT)) {
 		/* do nothing, just check for link up at the end */
 	} else if (tp->link_config.autoneg == AUTONEG_ENABLE) {
 		u32 adv, new_adv;





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