From: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:56:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: be2net: fix to allow port beacon when device is closed
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ca66ef500b874de4bf58e05f9d18ccdce64eabbc;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git

be2net: fix to allow port beacon when device is closed

port identification/beaconing is failing if device open has not been done.
Fixing it.

Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c
index e8f92831021a..9eabed4e3b92 100644
--- a/drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c
@@ -380,9 +380,6 @@ be_phys_id(struct net_device *netdev, u32 data)
 	int status;
 	u32 cur;
 
-	if (!netif_running(netdev))
-		return 0;
-
 	be_cmd_get_beacon_state(adapter, adapter->port_num, &cur);
 
 	if (cur == BEACON_STATE_ENABLED)