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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: lekensteyn@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, nic_swsd@realtek.com
Subject: Re: [r8169] About the "PHY reset until link up" warning
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:45:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130722224543.GA6268@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130722.144850.493762080108085770.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> :
> From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
[...]
> > I can change my mind but I haven't seen much need for a policy
> > change yet.
> 
> In every case where this issue has popped up, we have decided that
> printing messages when the cable is simply unplugged is very
> undesirable.

I could agree if there had not been any progress made with runtime
power management.

> I used to print messages on link failure in all the early drivers I
> wrote, it was a bad decision.

I know something is very wrong when it repeats itself a lot in a PR.

Feel free to take any message silenting patch if someone feels it
worth.

-- 
Ueimor

      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-22 22:45 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
2013-07-22 21:48   ` David Miller
2013-07-22 22:45     ` Francois Romieu [this message]

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