Hi,
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 23:23:39 -0400 > > From: Chas Williams <ch...@att.com> > > 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 conjunction 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. > > Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <ch...@att.com> Acked-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo...@intel.com>
