On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:02:45AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Steffen Klassert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The patch _should_ do the following:
> >
> > 1. Set the polling intervall for media changes to 5 seconds if link is
> > down
> > and 60 seconds if link is up.
> > 2. Handle netif_carrier_{on,of} and check for media changes in
> > proper way by using mii_check_media() in the mii case.
> > 3. Handle netif_carrier_{on,of} also if media is forced to
> > 10baseT/100baseTx.
> > 4. Use ethtool_op_get_link instead of vortex_get_link.
> > So it is possible to test with ethtool.
>
> This makes a 3c980-TX NIC start throwing Tx timeout errors once it's put
> under a bit of load.
>
> If the patch had been separated into a series of four (as it should have
> been) then I'd have been able to identify the offending one. But I don't
> really have the time to work out what's gone wrong here, sorry.
I will have a look at it and resend the splitted patches.
Steffen
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