Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261193AbUAIMSi (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 07:18:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261406AbUAIMSi (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 07:18:38 -0500 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:23714 "HELO ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261193AbUAIMSg (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 07:18:36 -0500 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:18:12 +0100 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Jonathan Lundell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problem with 2.4.24 e1000 and keepalived Message-Id: <20040109131812.11fc4948.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20040107200556.0d553c40.skraw@ithnet.com> <20040107210255.GA545@alpha.home.local> <3FFCC430.4060804@candelatech.com> <20040108091441.3ff81b53.skraw@ithnet.com> <20040108084758.GB9050@alpha.home.local> <20040109004525.GB545@alpha.home.local> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1062 Lines: 28 On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:00:42 -0800 Jonathan Lundell wrote: > At 1:45am +0100 1/9/04, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > It's unfortunate that the two conditions are conflated by most net > > > drivers. > > > >IMHO, saying "most net drivers" is unfair : tg3, tulip, 3c59x, starfire, > >realtek, sis900, dl2k, pcnet32, and IIRC sunhme are OK. eepro100 is nearly > >OK but has this annoying bug, and only older 10 Mbps drivers don't report > >their status, often because the chip itself doesn't know. > > I'm sure you're right; I should have said most of the drivers that > I'm using (including e100 &e1000). Can we find the cause for this obviously buggy behaviour inside the source? Where is the handling of physical up/down events different in tulip compared to e100(0) ? Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/