Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965052AbVI3TIR (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:08:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965066AbVI3TIR (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:08:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:59010 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965052AbVI3TIQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:08:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:07:23 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Dominik Karall Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Francois Romieu , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm2 (PHY reset until link up) Message-Id: <20050930120723.07d42517.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200509302049.45143.dominik.karall@gmx.net> References: <20050929143732.59d22569.akpm@osdl.org> <200509302049.45143.dominik.karall@gmx.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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: 1816 Lines: 42 Dominik Karall wrote: > > On Thursday 29 September 2005 23:37, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc2/2. > >6.14-rc2-mm2/ > > hi, > I'm not sure if this bug is in 2.6.14-rc2 too. I get hundreds of these > messages: > Sep 30 20:12:28 amd64box eth2: PHY reset until link up > Sep 30 20:12:38 amd64box eth2: PHY reset until link up > Sep 30 20:12:48 amd64box eth2: PHY reset until link up > Sep 30 20:12:58 amd64box eth2: PHY reset until link up > > eth2 uses the r8169 driver. _No_ network cable was connected at that moment! > here is lspci output: > 0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) > Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet > Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel, IRQ 217 > I/O ports at b000 [size=256] > Memory at fde00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] > Expansion ROM at fdd00000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 > > and dmesg: > r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 > eth2: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'. > eth2: RTL8169 at 0xffffc200009ca000, 00:0c:f6:04:87:c0, IRQ 217 > r8169: eth2: link down > That seems a bit dumb - R8169_MSG_DEFAULT has NETIF_MSG_LINK enabled, so yes, that driver's going to spam logs when there's no cable connected. I'd suggest that R8169_MSG_DEFAULT be toned down a bit. - 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/