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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:39:19 +0200 From: Jean-Michel Hautbois <jhautbois@...il.com> To: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Cc: barak@...adcom.com, eilong@...adcom.com, davem@...emloft.net Subject: bnx2x: link detected up at startup even when it should be down Hi all, I am working with a HP blade which has a bnx2x based card (Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet). I am using a 3.2 linux kernel, which works very well except on detecting the link state at startup. I have my ethernet interfaces linked with a bond, and I want to configure it for HA (in miimon mode). I am using a managed switch which helps me in disabling/enabling ports. When the port is disabled, at startup, the link is detected "UP". When I enable the port, it is still "UP", and when I disable it again, then it is detected "DOWN". I have tried the latest 3.6-rc6 kernel, and it works well (link is "DOWN" at startup when port is disabled). Then I bisected it, and I found out that the commit which makes it working (yes, it is an inverse bisect, thanks to this powerful git tool :)) is : a334872224a67b614dc888460377862621f3dac7 is the first bad commit commit a334872224a67b614dc888460377862621f3dac7 Author: Barak Witkowski <barak@...adcom.com> Date: Mon Apr 23 03:04:46 2012 +0000 bnx2x: add afex support Following patch adds afex multifunction support to the driver (afex multifunction is based on vntag header) and updates FW version used to 7.2.51. Support includes the following: 1. Configure vif parameters in firmware (default vlan, vif id, default priority, allowed priorities) according to values received from NIC. 2. Configure FW to strip/add default vlan according to afex vlan mode. 3. Notify link up to OS only after vif is fully initialized. 4. Support vif list set/get requests and configure FW accordingly. 5. Supply afex statistics upon request from NIC. 6. Special handling to L2 interface in case of FCoE vif. Signed-off-by: Barak Witkowski <barak@...adcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net> This commit is present in the 3.5.y stable branch, but not the 3.2.y one. Is there a workaround which would make this feature work correctly even on older kernels ? It does not seem to be trivial, but I may miss something as this driver is pretty big... Cheers, JM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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