netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/2] e1000e: Reset 82577/82578 PHY before first PHY register read

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Message-Id: <20100506.012301.55861124.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 06 May 2010 01:23:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, bruce.w.allan@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/2] e1000e: Reset 82577/82578 PHY before
 first PHY register read

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 01:00:27 -0700

> From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
> 
> Reset the PHY before first accessing it.  Doing so, ensure that the PHY is
> in a known good state before we read/write PHY registers. This fixes a
> driver probe failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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