The phy status register must be read twice in order to get the actual link state. Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -1889,6 +1889,7 @@ vortex_timer(unsigned long data)
{
spin_lock_bh(&vp->lock);
mii_status = mdio_read(dev, vp->phys[0], 1);
+ mii_status = mdio_read(dev, vp->phys[0], 1);
ok = 1;
if (vortex_debug > 2)
printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: MII transceiver has status %4.4x.\n",