From: Jon Maxwell Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 05:07:56 +0000 (+1100) Subject: tg3: allow ethtool -p to work for NICs in down state X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0dfecc93a60d6ac2acae886103ee0449a25a9c9;p=linux.git tg3: allow ethtool -p to work for NICs in down state Make tg3 behave like other drivers and let "ethtool -p" identify the NIC even when it's in the DOWN state. Before this patch it would get an error as follows if the NIC was down: # ip link set down dev em4 # ethtool -p em4 Cannot identify NIC: Resource temporarily unavailable With this patch ethtool identify works regardless of whether the NIC is up or down as it does for other drivers. Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell Acked-by: Michael Chan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c index 45ccadee02afc..d029468738ed1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c @@ -12763,9 +12763,6 @@ static int tg3_set_phys_id(struct net_device *dev, { struct tg3 *tp = netdev_priv(dev); - if (!netif_running(tp->dev)) - return -EAGAIN; - switch (state) { case ETHTOOL_ID_ACTIVE: return 1; /* cycle on/off once per second */