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authorKok, Auke <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>2007-02-16 14:39:30 -0800
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2007-02-17 15:37:14 -0500
commitca6efb7d6c9336acda2e7b76a39b59bbfe77ec13 (patch)
tree4cf6274ccd88b79a4294216b0b5bfef01e50ff78 /drivers
parent1d33e9c606bcf3d00bf67477e34253e861bb71c3 (diff)
e1000: allow ethtool to see link status when down
By reading the MAC status register we can detect whether the MAC has seen the PHY see link. This allows us to show the link properties before the device is up in ethtool. Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
index 44ebc72962d..6777887295f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ e1000_get_settings(struct net_device *netdev, struct ethtool_cmd *ecmd)
ecmd->transceiver = XCVR_EXTERNAL;
}
- if (netif_carrier_ok(adapter->netdev)) {
+ if (E1000_READ_REG(&adapter->hw, STATUS) & E1000_STATUS_LU) {
e1000_get_speed_and_duplex(hw, &adapter->link_speed,
&adapter->link_duplex);