e1000e: don't poke PHY registers to retreive link status
authorAuke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:30:59 +0000 (14:30 -0700)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:10:27 +0000 (21:10 -0400)
Apparently poking the link status registers when autonegotiation
is running on the PHY might botch the PHY link on 80003es2lan
devices. While this is a very rare condition we can completely
avoid it alltogether by just using the MAC link bits to provide
the proper information to ethtool.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

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