Ethernet controler offline test failure on i350 (driver igb) on serdes mode based ports

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Issue

Ethernet controler offline test failure on i350 (driver igb) on serdes mode based ports

[root@MX208 ~]# while [ 1 ]; do ethtool -t eth2 offline; done
The test result is PASS
The test extra info:
Register test  (offline)         0
Eeprom test    (offline)         0
Interrupt test (offline)         0
Loopback test  (offline)         0
Link test   (on/offline)         0

The test result is FAIL
The test extra info:
Register test  (offline)         0
Eeprom test    (offline)         0
Interrupt test (offline)         0
Loopback test  (offline)         0
Link test   (on/offline)         1

The test result is PASS
The test extra info:
Register test  (offline)         0
Eeprom test    (offline)         0
Interrupt test (offline)         0
Loopback test  (offline)         0
Link test   (on/offline)         0

The test result is FAIL
The test extra info:
Register test  (offline)         0
Eeprom test    (offline)         0
Interrupt test (offline)         0
Loopback test  (offline)         0
Link test   (on/offline)         1

The test result is PASS
The test extra info:
Register test  (offline)         0
Eeprom test    (offline)         0
Interrupt test (offline)         0
Loopback test  (offline)         0
Link test   (on/offline)         0

The test result is PASS
The test extra info:
Register test  (offline)         0
Eeprom test    (offline)         0
Interrupt test (offline)         0
Loopback test  (offline)         0
Link test   (on/offline)         0

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

$ethtool -i eth2
driver: igb
version: 4.0.1-k
firmware-version: 1.63, 0x0a808000
bus-info: 0000:06:00.2

$cat uname
Linux XXXXXX 2.6.32-343.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 19 16:46:10 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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