[PATCH] pasemi_mac: ethtool get settings fix

Valentine vbarshak at ru.mvista.com
Mon Oct 5 23:59:07 EST 2009


Resending pasemi_mac ethtool patches...

Valentine Barshak wrote:
> Not all pasemi mac interfaces can have a phy attached.
> For example, XAUI has no phy and phydev is NULL for it.
> In this case ethtool get settings causes kernel crash.
> Fix it by returning -EOPNOTSUPP if there's no PHY attached.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak at ru.mvista.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.21.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c	2008-11-06 18:10:38.000000000 +0300
> +++ linux-2.6.21/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c	2008-11-19 19:24:28.000000000 +0300
> @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ pasemi_mac_ethtool_get_settings(struct n
>  	struct pasemi_mac *mac = netdev_priv(netdev);
>  	struct phy_device *phydev = mac->phydev;
>  
> +	if (!phydev)
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  	return phy_ethtool_gset(phydev, cmd);
>  }
>  
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