[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH S39 10/15] ice: Don't tell the OS that link is going down

[Bowers, AndrewX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Tony Nguyen
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 12:59 AM
> To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH S39 10/15] ice: Don't tell the OS that link is
> going down
> 
> From: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski at intel.com>
> 
> Remove code that tell the OS that link is going down when user change flow
> control via ethtool. When link is up it isn't certain that link goes down after
> 0x0605 aq command. If link doesn't go down, OS thinks that link is down, but
> physical link is up. To reset this state user have to take interface down and
> up.
> 
> If link goes down after 0x0605 command, FW send information about that
> and after that driver tells the OS that the link goes down. So this code in
> ethtool is unnecessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

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