Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:15:34 +0430 | From | Miroslaw Mieszczak <> | Subject | Re: Patch for link detection for R8169 |
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Francois Romieu napisał(a):
>Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> : >[...] > >Ok, thanks for the hint. > >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 ? > > 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.
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