From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932193AbVIGSTJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:19:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932189AbVIGSTJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:19:09 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:36290 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932187AbVIGSTH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:19:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:17:21 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Miroslaw Mieszczak Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch for link detection for R8169 Message-ID: <20050907181721.GA7765@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <431DA887.2010008@zabrze.zigzag.pl> <20050906194602.GA20862@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <200509062002.j86K28R8019604@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20050906204221.GB20862@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <431EFD0E.9030409@zabrze.zigzag.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <431EFD0E.9030409@zabrze.zigzag.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miroslaw Mieszczak : [...] > The main problem with this driver is, that if I do like this, then every > 10 seconds I receive new message from the network card in kernel log. > There is following message: > > Sep 4 16:31:43 laptop_mirka eth0: PHY reset until link up > Sep 4 16:31:53 laptop_mirka eth0: PHY reset until link up You can silence this message in 2.6.13 by using the 'msglvl' option of the ethtool command. > Do you think, that this is correct way t do the things? You would not believe how arrogant I can be :o) More seriously, does there remain any issue for you wrt the usability of the r8169 driver ? -- Ueimor