Hi,
Static analysis with Coverity has detected an issue with setting the
speed control on the e1000 driver. This was introduced back in 2011 with
the following commit:
commit 5377a4160bb65ee4dd11b4b1d081d86d56d92bff
Author: Dirk Brandewie <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Jan 6 14:29:54 2011 +0000
e1000: Add support for the CE4100 reference platform
The Coverity analysis is as follows for function
e1000_config_mac_to_phy() in source
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_hw.c:
Operands don't affect result (CONSTANT_EXPRESSION_RESULT)
result_independent_of_operands: phy_data & 0x200000 is always 0
regardless of the values of its operands. This occurs as the logical
operand of if.
1936 if (phy_data & RTL_PHY_CTRL_SPD_100)
1937 ctrl |= E1000_CTRL_SPD_100;
1938 else
1939 ctrl |= E1000_CTRL_SPD_10;
phy_data is a u16 and it is being and-ed with 0x200000 and this always
is zero, so the E1000_CTRL_SPD_100 is never set.
Colin