net/smsc911x: Check if PHY is in operational mode before software reset
SMSC LAN generation 4 chips integrate an IEEE 802.3 ethernet physical layer. The PHY driver for this integrated chip enable an energy detect power-down mode. When the PHY is in a power-down mode, it prevents the MAC portion chip to be software reseted. That means that if we compile the kernel with the configuration option SMSC_PHY enabled and try to bring the network interface up without an cable plug-ed the PHY will be in a low power mode and the software reset will fail returning -EIO to user-space: root@igep00x0:~# ifconfig eth0 up ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Input/output error This patch disable the energy detect power-down mode before trying to software reset the LAN chip and re-enables after it was reseted successfully. Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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