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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c index 98375e1e1185..1982f7917a8d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c @@ -520,8 +520,6 @@ void e1000_down(struct e1000_adapter *adapter) struct net_device *netdev = adapter->netdev; u32 rctl, tctl; - netif_carrier_off(netdev); - /* disable receives in the hardware */ rctl = er32(RCTL); ew32(RCTL, rctl & ~E1000_RCTL_EN); @@ -537,6 +535,15 @@ void e1000_down(struct e1000_adapter *adapter) E1000_WRITE_FLUSH(); msleep(10); + /* Set the carrier off after transmits have been disabled in the + * hardware, to avoid race conditions with e1000_watchdog() (which + * may be running concurrently to us, checking for the carrier + * bit to decide whether it should enable transmits again). Such + * a race condition would result into transmission being disabled + * in the hardware until the next IFF_DOWN+IFF_UP cycle. + */ + netif_carrier_off(netdev); + napi_disable(&adapter->napi); e1000_irq_disable(adapter); |