This patch fixes a lots of annoying timer messages for this ethernet
adapter. Please, apply it.
--- drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c.orig Sun Aug 18 02:56:40 2002
+++ drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c Fri Oct 4 00:18:02 2002
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@
#define DE_DEF_MSG_ENABLE (NETIF_MSG_DRV | \
NETIF_MSG_PROBE | \
NETIF_MSG_LINK | \
- NETIF_MSG_TIMER | \
NETIF_MSG_IFDOWN | \
NETIF_MSG_IFUP | \
NETIF_MSG_RX_ERR | \
Denis Zaitsev wrote:
> This patch fixes a lots of annoying timer messages for this ethernet
> adapter. Please, apply it.
If the messages annoy you, disable that bit using ethtool. It's not
necessary to hack the driver for this.
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:54:19PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Denis Zaitsev wrote:
> > This patch fixes a lots of annoying timer messages for this ethernet
> > adapter. Please, apply it.
>
>
> If the messages annoy you, disable that bit using ethtool. It's not
> necessary to hack the driver for this.
>
It's hard to really call that a "hack"...
And do you want to say that you won't be annoyed, if each minute you
have on your console the message:
eth0: 10baseT auto link ok, mode 7ffc2002 status 51c8
I.e. 1440 of the same messages per day... So, will you? Or another
approach: the only one of all the other drivers/net use
NETIF_MSG_TIMER included into xxx_DEF_MSG_ENABLE, and this one is
Tigon3 driver, which is, again, your. And no one else. And this
silence seems to be a some kind of a "normal" behaviour, doesn't it?
And no one of other drivers needs ethtool to be just silent...
Or, may be there are some reasons for such a verbosing, I just don't
know about?
And, important: of course, I had to send the patch to you. I'm sorry,
for some reason I decided that the driver is unmaintained for the some
time.