Re: netpoll/netconsole minor tweaks

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:24:47AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Here's a couple small tweaks.  The first is to netpoll_setup.  The settle
> time was too short for my e100, and the system would hang.  

This probably ought to be a command line arg, my tg3 apparently
doesn't need it at all. One second is what's in the nfs-root stuff,
perhaps they need to share an arg, I changed it to two because my tlan
was dropping stuff (but not hanging - that may be a driver bug).
Ideally, I'd like to find a way to wait until the damn thing is up
before sending.

net/ipv4/ipconfig.c:
 /* Define the friendly delay before and after opening net devices */
 #define CONF_PRE_OPEN           (HZ/2)  /* Before opening: 1/2 second */
 #define CONF_POST_OPEN          (1*HZ)  /* After opening: 1 second */
 
Anyway, I'm still struggling with getting stuff working on my Opteron
box, care to take a stab at it?

> The second
> is to netconsole so that it registers a console with CON_PRINTBUFFER.
> This helps debugging early bootup issues where you want to capture data
> from before netconsole is initialized.  Perhaps it should be a param
> to netconsole?

I think this can probably be unconditional. Merged.

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