This driver has a long standing bug where removing and inserting the ethernet cable results in no packets being trnasmitted / received and hence no autonegotiation occurring.
Fixed by resetting the rx/tx engines and queue on detecting a cable being removed. Signed-off-by: Mark Einon <[email protected]> --- drivers/staging/et131x/et131x_initpci.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x_initpci.c b/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x_initpci.c index 618f844..e9daa73 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x_initpci.c +++ b/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x_initpci.c @@ -544,6 +544,10 @@ static void et131x_adjust_link(struct net_device *netdev) /* Setup ET1310 as per the documentation */ et131x_adapter_setup(adapter); + + /* perform reset of tx/rx */ + et131x_disable_txrx(netdev); + et131x_enable_txrx(netdev); } adapter->link = phydev->link; -- 1.7.6 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
