I'm currently running 2.6.27.4 on a powerpc target with the gianfar
Ethernet driver and an MII PHY, although I think some of these issues
may affect other systems/drivers as well.
If I boot the system and bring the interface up (e.g. "ifconfig up")
with the cable disconnected, wait a bit, then connect the cable, I don't
see the IPv6 DAD probe for the link-local address or the router
solicitation multicast.
A little investigation shows that the IPv6 addrconf module is assuming
"link up" at initialization and is running DAD and RS while the cable is
still disconnected. When I connect the cable, the PHY and the gianfar
driver detect "link up" but the addrconf module doesn't see the
transition.
Adding the following to the gianfar driver seems to fix the problem, but
I suspect there's a neater or better way to do this. In particular, I'd
expect this to be an issue in some of the other Ethernet drivers as
well.
--- linux-2.6.27.4/drivers/net/gianfar.c 2008-10-25
15:05:07.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.27.4-st/drivers/net/gianfar.c 2008-11-13
09:48:06.230573811 -0800
@@ -524,20 +524,21 @@
static int init_phy(struct net_device *dev) {
struct gfar_private *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
uint gigabit_support =
priv->einfo->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_GIGABIT
?
SUPPORTED_1000baseT_Full : 0;
struct phy_device *phydev;
char phy_id[BUS_ID_SIZE];
phy_interface_t interface;
+ netif_carrier_off(dev); // assume NOCARRIER at startup
priv->oldlink = 0;
priv->oldspeed = 0;
priv->oldduplex = -1;
snprintf(phy_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, PHY_ID_FMT, priv->einfo->bus_id,
priv->einfo->phy_id);
interface = gfar_get_interface(dev);
phydev = phy_connect(dev, phy_id, &adjust_link, 0, interface);
-Steve Tarr
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