From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759562AbXJXRTf (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:19:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753752AbXJXRTK (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:19:10 -0400 Received: from lnx130.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de ([130.83.174.24]:40422 "EHLO lnx130.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753202AbXJXRTI (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:19:08 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 414 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:19:08 EDT Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:11:29 +0200 From: Volker Sauer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: adi@postpi.com Subject: D-Link DFE-580TX and snmpd problems, who's maintainer of sundance.c ? Message-ID: <20071024171129.GA14255@volker-sauer.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j" Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-TUD-HRZ-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TUD-HRZ-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-MailScanner-From: vsauer@dvs.tu-darmstadt.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, there already was a thread on this topic in summer but with no result: http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/4b433f881e3585b2/a36ccba40ef2e59d?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=Re%3A+D-Link+DFE-580TX+4+port+NIC+problems#a36ccba40ef2e59d Adi tracked down, that the messages in the syslog (in my case appearing exactly every 30 seconds), come from snmpd running on the same machine calling SIOCDEVPRIVATE. This behaviour still exists in 2.6.23.1 I'm neither a skilled C-programmer nor a kernel-expert, but looking at drivers/net/sundance.c:1605 I see, that SIOCDEVPRIVATE does nothing else then printing this debug message. So the questions is: why? What is this good for? And: can I remove it? I can not abandon snmpd and the messages spam my syslog. Or: do I have to patch snmpd? Regards Volker -> Please CC: me, I'm not on the list <- P.S.: there's no one in the MAINTAINERS file for sundance.c. Is someone here who still cares about this driver? --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHH3zBfjVOTV3V0OARAnhqAJwI42BY05Dyhi/dqA2UqI+vtYwJxgCgkGJQ z58SSnHzJS3j/y52fqHbI5o= =Y9JW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--