From patchwork Mon Jan 28 09:04:27 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [net-next, 12/14] ixgbevf: Make sure link status and speed are fetched From: Jeff Kirsher X-Patchwork-Id: 216139 Message-Id: <1359363869-32391-13-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: Greg Rose , netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, Jeff Kirsher Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:04:27 -0800 From: Greg Rose A recent change makes it necessary to set get_link_status to ensure that the driver fetches the correct, refreshed value for link status and speed when it has changed in the physical function device. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose Tested-by: Sibai Li Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ethtool.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ethtool.c index 8f20704..c9d0c12 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ethtool.c @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static int ixgbevf_get_settings(struct net_device *netdev, ecmd->transceiver = XCVR_DUMMY1; ecmd->port = -1; + hw->mac.get_link_status = 1; hw->mac.ops.check_link(hw, &link_speed, &link_up, false); if (link_up) {