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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c index 3d73f2070b9..67e06fd9fc4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c @@ -190,6 +190,17 @@ static int e1000_get_settings(struct net_device *netdev, static u32 e1000_get_link(struct net_device *netdev) { struct e1000_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev); + struct e1000_mac_info *mac = &adapter->hw.mac; + + /* + * If the link is not reported up to netdev, interrupts are disabled, + * and so the physical link state may have changed since we last + * looked. Set get_link_status to make sure that the true link + * state is interrogated, rather than pulling a cached and possibly + * stale link state from the driver. + */ + if (!netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) + mac->get_link_status = 1; return e1000_has_link(adapter); } |