Yup, it's known and already fixed in-house.
Essentially, the return from e1000_get_link() should be something like:
return ((status & E1000_STATUS_LU) ? 1 : 0);
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:e1000-devel-
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John DeFranco
>Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:37 PM
>To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [E1000-devel] e1000e not returning proper ETHTOOLS link up
status?
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm seeing what I consider a problem with getting link status via
>SIOCETHTOOL and the e1000e driver. According to all the data I have and
>based on how the e1000/e100/tg3 and any broadcom driver works if I
issue
>something like the following:
>
> edata.cmd = ETHTOOL_GLINK;
> ifr.ifr_data = (caddr_t)&edata;
>
> if (ioctl(mii_socket, SIOCETHTOOL, &ifr) != 0 ){
> printf("errno: %d, %s\n", errno, strerror(errno));
> } else {
> printf("status for %s: 0x%x\n", if_name, edata.data);
> }
>
>I would/should get an edata.data value of 1 for link up and 0 for link
>down. Here is an example on an interface that uses the tg3 driver:
>
>[root@ ~]# ./test eth0
>mii_socket: 3
>Proper MII ioctl for eth0 is SIOCETHTOOL.
>status for eth0: 0x1
>
>The link is up and I get a 1. Same test on a nic with the e1000e driver
>shows:
>
>[root@ ~]# ./test eth4
>mii_socket: 3
>Proper MII ioctl for eth4 is SIOCETHTOOL.
>status for eth4: 0x2
>
>The link is definately up and connected but instead of showing a status
>of 1 it give me 2. If I unplug the link it does give me a 0 (as
expected).
>
>This seems like a bug, but thats why I'm asking this list.
>--
>John DeFranco
>Hewlett-Packard Company
>Availability Clusters Solutions Lab
>408-447-7543
>
>
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