Hi, Static analysis with Coverity has detected an issue with setting the speed control on the e1000 driver. This was introduced back in 2011 with the following commit:
commit 5377a4160bb65ee4dd11b4b1d081d86d56d92bff Author: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brande...@intel.com> Date: Thu Jan 6 14:29:54 2011 +0000 e1000: Add support for the CE4100 reference platform The Coverity analysis is as follows for function e1000_config_mac_to_phy() in source drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_hw.c: Operands don't affect result (CONSTANT_EXPRESSION_RESULT) result_independent_of_operands: phy_data & 0x200000 is always 0 regardless of the values of its operands. This occurs as the logical operand of if. 1936 if (phy_data & RTL_PHY_CTRL_SPD_100) 1937 ctrl |= E1000_CTRL_SPD_100; 1938 else 1939 ctrl |= E1000_CTRL_SPD_10; phy_data is a u16 and it is being and-ed with 0x200000 and this always is zero, so the E1000_CTRL_SPD_100 is never set. Colin