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Commit 3f0a1b58 authored by david decotigny's avatar david decotigny Committed by David S. Miller
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forcedeth: prevent TX timeouts after reboot



This complements patch "net-forcedeth: fix TX timeout caused by TX
pause on down link" which ensures that a lock-up sequence is not sent
to the NIC. Present patch ensures that if a NIC is already locked-up,
the driver will recover from it when initializing the device.

It does the equivalent of the following recovery sequence:
 - write NVREG_TX_PAUSEFRAME_ENABLE_V1 to eth1's register
   NvRegTxPauseFrame
 - write NVREG_XMITCTL_START to eth1's register
   NvRegTransmitterControl
 - write 0 to eth1's register NvRegTransmitterControl
(this is at the heart of the "unbricking" sequence mentioned in patch
 "net-forcedeth: fix TX timeout caused by TX pause on down link")

Tested:
 - hardware is MCP55 device id 10de:0373 (rev a3), dual-port
 - reboot a kernel without any of patches mentioned
 - freeze the NIC (details on description for commit "net-forcedeth:
   fix TX timeout caused by TX pause on down link")
 - wait 5mn until ping hangs & TX timeout in dmesg
 - reboot on kernel with present patch
 - host is immediatly operational, no TX timeout

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 1ff39eb6
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