netdev - Re: [PATCH 05/13] ftgmac100: Cleanup speed/duplex tracking and fix duplex config

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Date:   Mon, 03 Apr 2017 07:27:22 +1000
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] ftgmac100: Cleanup speed/duplex tracking and fix
 duplex config

On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 13:35 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> +       } else if (priv->cur_speed) {
> +               /* No link, just return. Leave the HW alone so it can
> +                * continue draining the tx ring.
> +                */
> +               netdev_info(netdev, "Link down\n");
>                 return;
> +       }
>  
> -       priv->old_speed = phydev->speed;
> +       priv->cur_speed = new_speed;
> +       priv->cur_duplex = phydev->duplex;

Finding my own bugs too ... the return above makes us fail
to update priv->cur_speed, thus the driver still thinks we
have a link. Not a huge deal but I'll fix too. (Caused by a
recent re-org in that code).

Cheers,
Ben.