[Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S98 1/6] i40e: don't restart nway if autoneg not supported

Bowers, AndrewX andrewx.bowers at intel.com
Wed Oct 31 16:26:04 UTC 2018


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Alice Michael
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 2:33 PM
> To: Michael, Alice <alice.michael at intel.com>; intel-wired-
> lan at lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S98 1/6] i40e: don't restart nway if
> autoneg not supported
> 
> From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> 
> On link types that do not support autoneg, we cannot attempt to restart
> nway negotiation. This results in a dead link that requires a power cycle to
> remedy.
> 
> Fix this by saving off the autoneg state and checking this value before we try
> to restart nway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers at intel.com>




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