[PATCH] sky2: flow control off

Turn flow control off for sky2. When flow control is on, the transmitter
may get randomly stuck. Perhaps there is hardware problem, but until
Marvell provides errata information for workaround, it should default to off.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/sky2.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/sky2.c b/drivers/net/sky2.c
index 822dd0b..a31dea5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c
@@ -3263,7 +3263,7 @@ #endif
 
 	/* Auto speed and flow control */
 	sky2->autoneg = AUTONEG_ENABLE;
-	sky2->flow_mode = FC_BOTH;
+	sky2->flow_mode = FC_NONE;
 
 	sky2->duplex = -1;
 	sky2->speed = -1;
-- 
1.4.1

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