On 7/17/2017 8:18 PM, Charles (Chas) Williams wrote: > The transmit and receive controller state machines are only enabled after > receiving an interrupt and the link status is now valid. If an adapter > is being used in conjuction with NC-SI, network controller sideband > interface, the adapter may never get a link state change interrupt since > the adapter's PHY is always link up and never changes state. > > To fix this, always enable and disable the transmit and receive with > .dev_start and .dev_stop. This is a better match for what is typically > done with the other PMD's. Since we may never get an interrupt to check > the link state, we also poll once at the end of .dev_start to get the > current link status.
Hi Charles, Is this patch target 17.08-rc2? Since this is not a fix, can this be postponed to 17.11? > > Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <ciwil...@brocade.com> <...>
