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The ks8851 chip's initial carrier state is down. A Link Change Interrupt is signaled once interrupts are enabled if the carrier is up. The ks8851 driver has it backwards by assuming that the initial carrier state is up. The state is therefore misrepresented if the interface is opened with no cable attached. Fix it. The Link Change interrupt is sometimes not signaled unless the P1MBSR register (which contains the Link Status bit) is read on ->ndo_open(). This might be a hardware erratum. Read the register by calling mii_check_link(), which has the desirable side effect of setting the carrier state to down if the cable was detached while the interface was closed. Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Cc: Frank Pavlic <f.pavlic@kunbus.de> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk> Cc: Tristram Ha <Tristram.Ha@microchip.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.