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authorAjit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>2009-11-29 18:56:56 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-12-02 09:50:25 +0100
commitca66ef500b874de4bf58e05f9d18ccdce64eabbc (patch)
treee4ea09fd7a0528433854dff30b74c7971cb01ba8 /drivers/net
parentbe2net: check for valid ether address (diff)
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be2net: fix to allow port beacon when device is closed
port identification/beaconing is failing if device open has not been done. Fixing it. Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c
index e8f92831021a..9eabed4e3b92 100644
--- a/drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c
@@ -380,9 +380,6 @@ be_phys_id(struct net_device *netdev, u32 data)
int status;
u32 cur;
- if (!netif_running(netdev))
- return 0;
-
be_cmd_get_beacon_state(adapter, adapter->port_num, &cur);
if (cur == BEACON_STATE_ENABLED)