r8169:Remove unnecessary phy reset for pcie nic when setting link spped.
authorChun-Hao Lin <hau@realtek.com>
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 06:21:14 +0000 (14:21 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:32:44 +0000 (22:32 -0400)
commitc45569755e828a8458d125bb93feb1d90ac9be6f
treea7af9fc77bc1b1de032ddfa92883b88efc0129a1
parent233fa44bd67ae0c6cbc01f96ab87d66a6c57812e
r8169:Remove unnecessary phy reset for pcie nic when setting link spped.

For pcie nic, after setting link speed and there is no link driver does not need
to do phy reset until link up.

For some pcie nics, to do this will also reset phy speed down counter and prevent
phy from auto speed down.

This patch fix the issue reported in following link.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1547151

Signed-off-by: Chunhao Lin <hau@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c