The patch titled forcedeth: power down phy when interface is down has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is forcedeth-power-down-phy-when-interface-is-down.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: forcedeth: power down phy when interface is down From: "Ed Swierk" <eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxx> Bring the physical link down when the interface is down by placing the PHY in power-down state, unless WOL is enabled. This mirrors the behavior of other drivers including e1000 and tg3. Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -puN drivers/net/forcedeth.c~forcedeth-power-down-phy-when-interface-is-down drivers/net/forcedeth.c --- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c~forcedeth-power-down-phy-when-interface-is-down +++ a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c @@ -1313,9 +1313,9 @@ static int phy_init(struct net_device *d /* some phys clear out pause advertisment on reset, set it back */ mii_rw(dev, np->phyaddr, MII_ADVERTISE, reg); - /* restart auto negotiation */ + /* restart auto negotiation, power down phy */ mii_control = mii_rw(dev, np->phyaddr, MII_BMCR, MII_READ); - mii_control |= (BMCR_ANRESTART | BMCR_ANENABLE); + mii_control |= (BMCR_ANRESTART | BMCR_ANENABLE | BMCR_PDOWN); if (mii_rw(dev, np->phyaddr, MII_BMCR, mii_control)) { return PHY_ERROR; } @@ -4791,6 +4791,10 @@ static int nv_open(struct net_device *de dprintk(KERN_DEBUG "nv_open: begin\n"); + /* power up phy */ + mii_rw(dev, np->phyaddr, MII_BMCR, + mii_rw(dev, np->phyaddr, MII_BMCR, MII_READ) & ~BMCR_PDOWN); + /* erase previous misconfiguration */ if (np->driver_data & DEV_HAS_POWER_CNTRL) nv_mac_reset(dev); @@ -4973,6 +4977,10 @@ static int nv_close(struct net_device *d if (np->wolenabled) { writel(NVREG_PFF_ALWAYS|NVREG_PFF_MYADDR, base + NvRegPacketFilterFlags); nv_start_rx(dev); + } else { + /* power down phy */ + mii_rw(dev, np->phyaddr, MII_BMCR, + mii_rw(dev, np->phyaddr, MII_BMCR, MII_READ) | BMCR_PDOWN); } /* FIXME: power down nic */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxx are git-net.patch forcedeth-power-down-phy-when-interface-is-down.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html