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Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:26:38 +0400 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org> To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> CC: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>, Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH RESEND 3/3] e1000e: fix accessing to suspended device Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 14:03 +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >> Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote: >>> On 2/24/2013 9:19 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >>>> This patch fixes some annoying messages like 'Error reading PHY register' and >>>> 'Hardware Erorr' and saves several seconds on reboot. >>> >>> Any networking-related patches should also include netdev@...r.kernel.org. >> >> Yeah, I forgot about this, since I came here from PCI-bus side, not from the network =) >> >>> >>> I'm also a bit confused how the changes below match the patch description. >> > Elaborating a bit more how the changes suppress the messages might be a good thing. >> >> Patch eliminates reason of these errors -- now driver will wake up >> the device before accessing to its registers. > [...] > > But e1000e calls netif_device_detach() when entering run-time suspend. > That currently prevents any ethtool operations from running until it > resumes. This seems racy. dev_ethtool() runs under rtnl-lock, but suspend-resume run asynchronously. Runtime-suspend shoudn't call netif_device_detach(), logically device isn't dead it just take a nap for a while.. > > (This is definitely a misfeature of either the ethtool core or e1000e. > It is absolutely ridiculous that I can't check the PHY settings of an > e1000e - or even driver information! - when the link is down.) Ok link is down, but device still alive and I not see anything ridiculous in checking its registers. -- 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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