First I am seeing an issue where switching from the out-of-tree driver to the in kernel driver for ixgbe w/ x540 is causing some sort of link issue. I can switch back to the out-of-tree driver and I am able to get link, but if I try to use the in kernel driver after unloading the out-of-tree I just cannot get link again. I saw this with a net-next pull from about a week ago and the 4.0.3 out of tree ixgbe driver. I actually have the port connected back-to-back with the other port of the adapter. The driver on the client side is just the standard RHEL7.X.
Second it looks like ethregs-1.20.0 is reading the SW_FW_SYNC register, mislabeled as the GSSR register. This is triggering the SW semaphore to be taken by ethregs and after that the driver cannot load as it returns EEPROM read errors. This should really be disabled or placed behind the -c option since the register has read side effects. - Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
