During interface toggle operations (ifdown/ifup), the driver currently resets the local helper variable 'phy_link' to -1. This causes the link state machine to incorrectly interpret the state as a link change event, resulting in spurious "Link is down" messages being logged when the interface is brought back up. Preserve the phy_link state across interface toggles to avoid treating the -1 sentinel value as a legitimate link state transition. Fixes: 88131a812b16 ("amd-xgbe: Perform phy connect/disconnect at dev open/stop") Signed-off-by: Raju Rangoju --- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-mdio.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c index f0989aa01855..4dc631af7933 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c @@ -1080,7 +1080,6 @@ static void xgbe_free_rx_data(struct xgbe_prv_data *pdata) static int xgbe_phy_reset(struct xgbe_prv_data *pdata) { - pdata->phy_link = -1; pdata->phy_speed = SPEED_UNKNOWN; return pdata->phy_if.phy_reset(pdata); diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-mdio.c index 1a37ec45e650..7675bb98f029 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-mdio.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-mdio.c @@ -1555,6 +1555,7 @@ static int xgbe_phy_init(struct xgbe_prv_data *pdata) pdata->phy.duplex = DUPLEX_FULL; } + pdata->phy_link = 0; pdata->phy.link = 0; pdata->phy.pause_autoneg = pdata->pause_autoneg; -- 2.34.1