From: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.f...@canonical.com> Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 01:32:18 +0800
> igb device gets runtime suspended when there's no link partner. We can't > get correct speed under that state: > $ cat /sys/class/net/enp3s0/speed > 1000 > > In addition to that, an error can also be spotted in dmesg: > [ 385.991957] igb 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: PCIe link lost > > Since device can only be runtime suspended when there's no link partner, > we can directly report the speed and duplex as unknown. > > The more generic approach will be wrap get_link_ksettings() with begin() > and complete() callbacks. However, for this particular issue, begin() > calls igb_runtime_resume() , which tries to rtnl_lock() while the lock > is already hold by upper ethtool layer. > > So let's take this approach until the igb_runtime_resume() no longer > needs to hold rtnl_lock. > > Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.du...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.f...@canonical.com> I'm assuming I will get this from upstream via Jeff K.