Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932612Ab0DGNmj (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:42:39 -0400 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]:34589 "EHLO outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932565Ab0DGNme (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:42:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:42:28 +0200 To: Joe Perches Cc: Grant Grundler , Kyle McMartin , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xf0260000 CSR6 0xb3862002) on DEC Alpha Personal Workstation 433au Message-ID: <20100407134228.GC31252@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <20100405171318.GA18915@physik.fu-berlin.de> <1270488982.31062.28.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1270488982.31062.28.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) From: Adrian Glaubitz X-Originating-IP: 160.45.64.218 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1312 Lines: 35 Hi, On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:36:22AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 19:13 +0200, Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I installed Debian unstable on an old digital workstation "DEC Digital > > Personal Workstation 433au" (Miata) which has an on-board tulip > > network controller. I'm not really using that network controller but > > an off-board intel e1000 controller. However, I found that the tulip > > driver produces a lot of noise in the message log, the following > > message is repated periodically and spams the whole message log: > > > > 0000:00:03.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xf0260000 CSR6 0xb3862002) > > > > Do you think this is related to the fact that no cable is connected to > > the network controller? > > Probably something is trying periodically to open the device. > Maybe this helps reduce the message log noise: > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: Adrian Glaubitz Patch works perfectly. Now the message log looks pretty normal. Thanks, Adrian -- 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/