From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: pat@isis.co.za, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan@redhat.com,
Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Network hanging - Tulip driver with Netgear (Lite-On)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 23:20:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA01CAF.98726DEC@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A9A30C7.3C62E34@colorfullife.com> <3A9AB84C.A17D20AE@mandrakesoft.com> <3A9AC372.A86DC6C7@colorfullife.com> <3AA00D5A.44FA21D0@mandrakesoft.com>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > Could you double check the code in tulip_core.c, around line 1450?
> > IMHO it's bogus.
> >
> > 1) if the network card contains multiple mii's, then the the advertised
> > value of all mii's is changed to the advertised value of the first mii.
>
> I'm really curious about this one myself.
>
> Since I haven't digested all of the tulip media stuff in my brain yet,
> and since I'm not familiar with all the corner cases, I'm loathe to
> change the tulip media stuff without fully understanding what's going
> on.
>
> If you have a single controller with multiple MII phys... how does one
> select the phy of choice (for tulip, in the absence of SROM media
> table...)?
I'd choose the first one with a link partner.
> And once phy A has been selected out of N available as the
> active phy, should you care about the others at all?
>
Not until the link beat disappears.
Then scan all existing phy's and select the phy with a link beat as the
new active phy.
At least that's what the sis900.c driver does. Are there other linux
drivers that support multiple phy's?
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-02 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-26 10:32 PROBLEM: Network hanging - Tulip driver with Netgear (Lite-On) Manfred Spraul
2001-02-26 20:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-26 20:58 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-03-02 21:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-02 21:03 ` I/O problem with sustained writes Collectively Unconscious
2001-03-02 23:57 ` Andrew Morton
2001-03-02 22:20 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2001-03-02 22:48 ` PROBLEM: Network hanging - Tulip driver with Netgear (Lite-On) Donald Becker
2001-02-27 6:16 ` Pat Verner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-27 6:31 Pat Verner
2001-02-26 7:45 Pat Verner
2001-02-22 7:56 PROBLEM: Network hanging - Tulip driver with Netgear (Lite-On) NIC Pat Verner
2001-02-22 10:42 ` PROBLEM: Network hanging - Tulip driver with Netgear (Lite-On) Alan Cox
2001-02-22 20:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-22 12:42 ` Pat Verner
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3AA01CAF.98726DEC@colorfullife.com \
--to=manfred@colorfullife.com \
--cc=Alan@redhat.com \
--cc=becker@scyld.com \
--cc=jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=pat@isis.co.za \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).