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Bug 513417

Summary:	bnx2 initialize link status detection different from other NIC drivers
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Flavio Leitner <fleitner>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John Feeney <jfeeney>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	5.3	CC:	jfeeney, mmilgram
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Bug Blocks:	499522, 533192

Description Flavio Leitner 2009-07-23 15:01:57 UTC

After loading bnx2 driver, ethtool shows eth1 as having a link detected.

Other drivers (i.e. e1000/e1000e) initialize the link status to 'no' by 
calling netif_carrier_off() in pci_driver->probe().

The patch is discussed upstream here:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/29100/

On RHEL-5, bnx2, bnx2x and tg3 needs to be fixed.

Comment 1 John Feeney 2009-11-11 19:45:30 UTC

Kernel RPMs with the proposed patch to upgrade to version 2.0.2 can be found at:
http://people.redhat.com/jfeeney/.rhel5-bnx2

This kernel includes the following upstream patch:
 
  Ooiwa Naohiro - 6/24/2009
    Fix the behavior of ethtool when ONBOOT=no
    7959ea254ed18faee41160b1c50b3c9664735967
 
among others.

Any testing feedback would be appreciated.

Comment 3 John Feeney 2009-11-16 18:08:47 UTC

The specific patch that fixes this is found in the big patch that updates the bnx2 driver for RHEL5.5 so I am closing this bz as a duplicate of the big one. Thanks to all for any testing that you did for this one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 517377 ***