Subject: Re: [PATCH-2.4] forcedeth update to 0.50

From: Manfred Spraul <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:50:38 +0200

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>Since v2.4.33 should be out RSN, my opinion is that applying the one-liner 
>to fix the bringup problem for now is more prudent..
>
>  
>
It's attached. Untested, but it should work. Just the relevant hunk from 
the 0.42 patch.

But I would disagree with waiting for 2.3.34 for a full backport:
0.30 basically doesn't work, thus the update to 0.50 would be a big step 
forward - it can't be worse that 0.30.

--
    Manfred

--- 2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2005-08-14 11:17:03.000000000 +0200
+++ build-2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2005-08-14 11:16:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -2178,6 +2180,9 @@
 		writel(NVREG_MIISTAT_MASK, base + NvRegMIIStatus);
 		dprintk(KERN_INFO "startup: got 0x%08x.\n", miistat);
 	}
+	/* set linkspeed to invalid value, thus force nv_update_linkspeed
+	 * to init hw */
+	np->linkspeed = 0;
 	ret = nv_update_linkspeed(dev);
 	nv_start_rx(dev);
 	nv_start_tx(dev);