On Friday 09 June 2006 07:23, David Miller wrote: > From: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:13:48 -0700 > > > netconsole should retry. There is no timeout programmed here since that > > might > > lose important information, and you rather want netconsole to survive an odd > > unplugged cable then to lose vital debugging information when the system is > > busy for instance. (losing link will cause the interface to be down and thus > > the queue to be stopped) > > I completely disagree that netpoll should loop when the ethernet > cable is plugged out.
Currently it is a bit dumb and doesn't distingush the various cases well. I submitted a patch to loop to be a bit more clever at some point. It can be still found in the netdev archives. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
