There were no curly braces in this if condition so it always enabled full duplex. And ecmd->speed is an unsigned short so it is never equal to -1. The effect is that mii_ethtool_sset() fails with -EINVAL and an error is printed to dmesg. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_ethtool.c index e06c6ae..c8cc32c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_ethtool.c @@ -113,9 +113,10 @@ static int pch_gbe_set_settings(struct net_device *netdev, pch_gbe_hal_write_phy_reg(hw, MII_BMCR, BMCR_RESET); - if (ecmd->speed == -1) + if (ecmd->speed == USHRT_MAX) { ecmd->speed = SPEED_1000; ecmd->duplex = DUPLEX_FULL; + } ret = mii_ethtool_sset(&adapter->mii, ecmd); if (ret) { pr_err("Error: mii_ethtool_sset\n"); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html