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sfc: Simplify XMAC link polling

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From: Steve Hodgson <shodgson@solarflare.com>

Only the XMAC on Falcon needs help from the driver to poll and reset
the MAC-PHY link (XAUI); GMII is a simple parallel bus and on later
NICs firmware takes care of the XAUI link.  Also, an XMAC interrupt
currently schedules a work item which simply clears a flag
(efx_nic::mac_up) to be checked by the regular monitor (or the next
link reconfiguration, if that is sooner).

Rename the flag to xmac_poll_required, changing its sense.  Remove the
needless indirection and just set the flag immediately.  Call
falcon_xmac_poll() directly where required.

Add a new generic operation mac_op::check_fault to check the link
outside of regular monitoring, as required during self-tests.

(Note that this leaves us with an unused work item, but we will
immediately have another use for it.)

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ben Hutchings 2009-11-25 16:12:01 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller
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