Re: [Intel-wired-lan] e1000e: PHY cann't be initialized correctly on some I218 controllers

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From	Raanan Avargil <raanan.avargil@intel.com>
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Subject	Re: [Intel-wired-lan] e1000e: PHY cann't be initialized correctly on some I218 controllers
Date	Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:20:01 +0200
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On 8/7/2016 11:56, Denis Turischev wrote:
> Hi Raanan,
>
> On 08/04/2016 07:18 PM, Raanan Avargil wrote:
>> It is hard to determine what is exactly the problem here and what causes the -3 error, but this is not the place to perform hw reset and retry to init the phy.
> I agree that may be this is not the correct place for hw reset, can you advice about another solution?
>
> It works, not only for me, for example it helps here:
> http://www.linux.org.ru/forum/linux-hardware/10268216
>
> Another fact that Windows drivers work fine with the same hw.
>
> Denis
>

Hi Denis,

More suitable place to retry init the device would be in probe function.
However, we haven't seen initialization issues like this on i218.

Adding Aaron.

@Aaron - have you seen initialization errors on i218 devices?

Raanan
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e1000e: PHY cann't be initialized correctly on some I218 controllers Denis Turischev <denis.turischev@compulab.co.il> - 2016-08-01 15:10 +0200
  Re: [Intel-wired-lan] e1000e: PHY cann't be initialized correctly on  some I218 controllers Raanan Avargil <raanan.avargil@intel.com> - 2016-08-04 18:20 +0200
    Re: [Intel-wired-lan] e1000e: PHY cann't be initialized correctly on  some I218 controllers Denis Turischev <denis.turischev@compulab.co.il> - 2016-08-07 11:00 +0200
      Re: [Intel-wired-lan] e1000e: PHY cann't be initialized correctly on  some I218 controllers Raanan Avargil <raanan.avargil@intel.com> - 2016-08-09 17:20 +0200
        RE: [Intel-wired-lan] e1000e: PHY cann't be initialized correctly  on some I218 controllers "Brown, Aaron F" <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> - 2016-08-09 21:10 +0200
          RE: [Intel-wired-lan] e1000e: PHY cann't be initialized correctly  on some I218 controllers "Neftin, Sasha" <sasha.neftin@intel.com> - 2016-08-10 22:20 +0200

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