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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Peter Wu <lekensteyn@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@realtek.com>
Subject: Re: [r8169] About the "PHY reset until link up" warning
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:43:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130722214358.GA4997@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2215813.0syAhGCZsc@al>

Peter Wu <lekensteyn@gmail.com> :
[...]
> If this is a (hardware) bug workaround, can't it be restricted to that
> specific hardware or removed altogether (perhaps firmware / other updates
> fixed it already?).

It tastes of QA nightmare. It can't be proven safe easily.

Link failure sucks. If nowhere else, I'll play safe, shamanic with the phy
and I want big pesky messages when something goes unusual.

> Otherwise, what about removing this debug message?

It can be disabled with the msglvl option of ethtool.

It should stop after a few seconds if runtime power management is enabled.

I can change my mind but I haven't seen much need for a policy change yet.

-- 
Ueimor

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-22 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-22 10:42 [r8169] About the "PHY reset until link up" warning Peter Wu
2013-07-22 21:43 ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2013-07-22 21:48   ` David Miller
2013-07-22 22:45     ` Francois Romieu

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