netdev - Re: [REGRESSION] 5.3-rc1: r8169: remove 1000/Half from supported modes

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Message-ID: <9af99856-2e5d-0e3a-34d3-0582da869919@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:45:33 +0200
From:   Bernhard Held <berny156@....de>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 5.3-rc1: r8169: remove 1000/Half from supported
 modes

On 26.07.19 at 22:24, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 26.07.2019 22:16, Bernhard Held wrote:
>> Hi Heiner,
>>
>> with commit a6851c613fd7 "r8169: remove 1000/Half from supported modes" my RTL8111B GB-link stops working. It thinks that it established a link, however nothing is actually transmitted. Setting the mode with `mii-tool -F 100baseTx-HD` establishes a successful connection.
>>
> Can you provide standard ethtool output w/ and w/o this patch? Also a full dmesg output
> with the patch would be helpful.
> Is "100baseTx-HD" a typo and you mean GBit? And any special reason why you set half duplex?
>

The requested files are attached.

mii-tool doesn't offer GBit settings. I used HD only while playing around, both FD and HD are working.

Hope it helps!
Bernhard

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