commit d4044c2a6b9ba4a00dd653f515a4b0ebfcb7e125
author Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Wed Aug 17 11:03:14 2011 +0200
committer Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Mon Aug 22 10:17:51 2011 -0500
tree ae5699cbaefe863f224b27e4bfba0fcb241f5f7d
parent 2011fe5657f421e919eb6fed826ad2413e375673

e1000: use MII status register for link up/down

Some guests will use the standard MII status register
to verify link state.  They will not notice link changes
unless this register is updated.

Verified with Linux 3.0 and Windows XP guests.

Without this patch, ethtool will report speed and duplex as
unknown when the link is down, but still report the link as
up.  This is because the Linux e1000 driver checks the
mac_reg[STATUS] register link state before it checks speed
and duplex, but uses the phy_reg[PHY_STATUS] register for
the actual link state check.  Fix by updating both registers
on link state changes.

Linux guest before:

 (qemu) set_link e1000.0 off

 kvm-sid:~# ethtool eth0
 Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: Unknown!
        Duplex: Unknown! (255)
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: umbg
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                               drv probe link
        Link detected: yes

 (qemu) set_link e1000.0 on

Linux guest after:

 (qemu) set_link e1000.0 off
 [   63.384221] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Down

 kvm-sid:~# ethtool eth0
 Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: Unknown!
        Duplex: Unknown! (255)
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: umbg
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                               drv probe link
        Link detected: no

 (qemu) set_link e1000.0 on
 [   84.304582] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>