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| author | Nick Nunley <nicholasx.d.nunley@intel.com> | 2010-02-03 14:49:28 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-02-03 19:39:56 -0800 |
| commit | b548192acaebcb05d6a87d1e94f19835b1a18a8b (patch) | |
| tree | d84ebe0a50cbeba290d01525ec14d3c91f713e24 /drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c | |
| parent | 10eec95569513206877769ad9336591c08015cfe (diff) | |
| download | linux-b548192acaebcb05d6a87d1e94f19835b1a18a8b.tar.gz | |
e1000: Report link status in ethtool when interface is down
With this change ethtool will correctly report link status when
the interface is down. Currently ethtool reports the link as not
detected when the interface is down.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Nunley <nicholasx.d.nunley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c index 13e9ece168898b..c67e93117271bb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c @@ -215,6 +215,23 @@ static int e1000_set_settings(struct net_device *netdev, return 0; } +static u32 e1000_get_link(struct net_device *netdev) +{ + struct e1000_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev); + + /* + * If the link is not reported up to netdev, interrupts are disabled, + * and so the physical link state may have changed since we last + * looked. Set get_link_status to make sure that the true link + * state is interrogated, rather than pulling a cached and possibly + * stale link state from the driver. + */ + if (!netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) + adapter->hw.get_link_status = 1; + + return e1000_has_link(adapter); +} + static void e1000_get_pauseparam(struct net_device *netdev, struct ethtool_pauseparam *pause) { @@ -1892,7 +1909,7 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops e1000_ethtool_ops = { .get_msglevel = e1000_get_msglevel, .set_msglevel = e1000_set_msglevel, .nway_reset = e1000_nway_reset, - .get_link = ethtool_op_get_link, + .get_link = e1000_get_link, .get_eeprom_len = e1000_get_eeprom_len, .get_eeprom = e1000_get_eeprom, .set_eeprom = e1000_set_eeprom, |