linux-kernel - [PATCH] sky2: flow control off

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Date:	Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:34:25 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sky2: flow control off

Turn flow control off for sky2. When flow control is on, the transmitter
may get randomly stuck. Perhaps there is hardware problem, but until
Marvell provides errata information for workaround, it should default to off.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/sky2.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/sky2.c b/drivers/net/sky2.c
index 822dd0b..a31dea5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c
@@ -3263,7 +3263,7 @@ #endif
 
 	/* Auto speed and flow control */
 	sky2->autoneg = AUTONEG_ENABLE;
-	sky2->flow_mode = FC_BOTH;
+	sky2->flow_mode = FC_NONE;
 
 	sky2->duplex = -1;
 	sky2->speed = -1;
-- 
1.4.1

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