Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

[Miroslaw Mieszczak <mieszcz@zabrze.zigzag.pl>]

Francois Romieu napisał(a):

>Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> :
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>Ok, thanks for the hint.
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>Currently one can do 'ifconfig ethX up', check the link status, then try
>to DHCP or whatever. Apparently a few drivers do not support tne detection
>of link as presented above. So is it anything like a vendor requirement/a
>standard (or should it be the new right way (TM)) or does the userspace
>needs fixing wrt its expectation ?
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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

Do you think, that this is correct way t do the things? I
In my opinion, the solution, that link status can be checked (if 
hardware allow this) when interface is down is more usefull.