netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.25 3/4][BNX2]: Add link-down workaround on 5706 serdes.

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Message-Id: <20080121.170716.52732223.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:07:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25 3/4][BNX2]: Add link-down workaround on 5706
 serdes.

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:08:24 -0800

> [BNX2]: Add link-down workaround on 5706 serdes.
> 
> In some blade systems using the 5706 serdes, the hardware sometimes
> does not properly generate link down interrupts.  We add a workaround
> in the driver's timer to force a link-down when some PHY registers
> report loss of SYNC.
> 
> The parallel detect logic is cleaned up slightly to better integrate
> the workaround.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

Applied.
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