netdev - RE: bnx2x: link detected up at startup even when it should be down

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:23:02 +0000
From:	"Dmitry Kravkov" <dmitry@...adcom.com>
To:	"Jean-Michel Hautbois" <jhautbois@...il.com>
cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Barak Witkowski" <barak@...adcom.com>,
	"Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: RE: bnx2x: link detected up at startup even when it should be
 down

Hi Jean,

Thank you for the info

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel Hautbois [mailto:jhautbois@...il.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:04 AM
> To: Dmitry Kravkov
> Cc: netdev; Barak Witkowski; Eilon Greenstein; davem@...emloft.net
> Subject: Re: bnx2x: link detected up at startup even when it should be down
> 
> I already did it twice. I think this is FW related and not only the
> commit adding afex support. It may have solved a link issue (I am just
> guessing, based on experiments) ?

FW replaced in this commit does not deal with link at all,

One is involved in link management is displayed using 'ethtool -i' - it comes with a card  and driver independent. 

Is device configured for MF by the switch?
Can you please share lspci output?

Other thing that can help in analysis is msglvl 0x4 for both situations

Thanks a lot