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r8152: Avoid writing garbage to the adapter's registers
This series is the result of a cooperative debug effort between
Realtek and the ChromeOS team. On ChromeOS, we've noticed that Realtek
Ethernet adapters can sometimes get so wedged that even a reboot of
the host can't get them to enumerate again, assuming that the adapter
was on a powered hub and din't lose power when the host rebooted. This
is sometimes seen in the ChromeOS automated testing lab. The only way
to recover adapters in this state is to manually power cycle them.
I managed to reproduce one instance of this wedging (unknown if this
is truly related to what the test lab sees) by doing this:
1. Start a flood ping from a host to the device.
2. Drop the device into kdb.
3. Wait 90 seconds.
4. Resume from kdb (the "g" command).
5. Wait another 45 seconds.
Upon analysis, Realtek realized this was happening:
1. The Linux driver was getting a "Tx timeout" after resuming from kdb
and then trying to reset itself.
2. As part of the reset, the Linux driver was attempting to do a
read-modify-write of the adapter's registers.
3. The read would fail (due to a timeout) and the driver pretended
that the register contained all 0xFFs. See commit
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