Re: [PATCH] netdev: carrier detect ok, don't turn off negotiation

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Feb 26 2018 - 14:38:46 EST


From: Denis Du <dudenis2000@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:51:42 -0500

> Sometimes when physical lines have a just good noise to make the protocol
> handshaking fail, but the carrier detect still good. Then after remove of
> the noise, nobody will trigger this protocol to be start again to cause
> the link to never come back. The fix is when the carrier is still on, not
> terminate the protocol handshaking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Du <dudenis2000@xxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.