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

[Raanan Avargil]

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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