Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] 2.5.40 de2104x: a lots of timer messages

[Denis Zaitsev <zzz@cd-club.ru>]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:54:19PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Denis Zaitsev wrote:
> > This patch fixes a lots of annoying timer messages for this ethernet
> > adapter.  Please, apply it.
> 
> 
> If the messages annoy you, disable that bit using ethtool.  It's not 
> necessary to hack the driver for this.
> 

It's hard to really call that a "hack"...
And do you want to say that you won't be annoyed, if each minute you
have on your console the message:

        eth0: 10baseT auto link ok, mode 7ffc2002 status 51c8

I.e. 1440 of the same messages per day...  So, will you?  Or another
approach: the only one of all the other drivers/net use
NETIF_MSG_TIMER included into xxx_DEF_MSG_ENABLE, and this one is
Tigon3 driver, which is, again, your.  And no one else.  And this
silence seems to be a some kind of a "normal" behaviour, doesn't it?
And no one of other drivers needs ethtool to be just silent...

Or, may be there are some reasons for such a verbosing, I just don't
know about?

And, important: of course, I had to send the patch to you.  I'm sorry,
for some reason I decided that the driver is unmaintained for the some
time.