mcs7830: Fix link state detection

The device had an undocumented "feature": it can provide a sequence of
spurious link-down status data even if the link is up all the time.
A sequence of 10 was seen so update the link state only after the device
reports the same link state 20 times.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Reported-by: Michael Leun <lkml20120218@newton.leun.net>
Tested-by: Michael Leun <lkml20120218@newton.leun.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drivers/net/usb/mcs7830.c

@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ enum {
 struct mcs7830_data {
 	u8 multi_filter[8];
 	u8 config;
+	u8 link_counter;
 };
 
 static const char driver_name[] = "MOSCHIP usb-ethernet driver";
@@ -632,13 +633,22 @@ static int mcs7830_rx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 static void mcs7830_status(struct usbnet *dev, struct urb *urb)
 {
 	u8 *buf = urb->transfer_buffer;
-	bool link;
+	bool link, link_changed;
+	struct mcs7830_data *data = mcs7830_get_data(dev);
 
 	if (urb->actual_length < 16)
 		return;
 
 	link = !(buf[1] & 0x20);
-	if (netif_carrier_ok(dev->net) != link) {
+	link_changed = netif_carrier_ok(dev->net) != link;
+	if (link_changed) {
+		data->link_counter++;
+		/*
+		   track link state 20 times to guard against erroneous
+		   link state changes reported sometimes by the chip
+		 */
+		if (data->link_counter > 20) {
+			data->link_counter = 0;
 			if (link) {
 				netif_carrier_on(dev->net);
 				usbnet_defer_kevent(dev, EVENT_LINK_RESET);
@@ -646,6 +656,8 @@ static void mcs7830_status(struct usbnet *dev, struct urb *urb)
 				netif_carrier_off(dev->net);
 			netdev_dbg(dev->net, "Link Status is: %d\n", link);
 		}
+	} else
+		data->link_counter = 0;
 }
 
 static const struct driver_info moschip_info = {