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authorBruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>2011-05-13 07:19:42 +0000
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2011-06-09 20:31:24 -0700
commitd9b24135b972ccdd5f5174fba06c730e895e6daf (patch)
treeae5176a5b75cb8790d6411b5eb269edaaf31aec2 /drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
parente357964ee66723d0ced63ac1dbd1db4a6a1d417e (diff)
e1000e: disable far-end loopback mode on ESB2
The ESB2 LAN includes a debug feature that enables far-end loopback (FELB) of the SerDes/Kumeran interface. This feature is activated when receiving a sequence of symbols that includes a reserved codeword. On a perfect link, FELB would never be activated. In the presence of bit errors, there is a very small, but non-zero, probability of FELB being activated. If the FELB is activated, the SerDes link becomes non-functional and must be reset. It could also corrupt the switching tables in the switch since the ESB2 is transmitting packets with a different source MAC address. This patch disables the FELB feature. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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