Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753423Ab0DHFBH (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 01:01:07 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36552 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751715Ab0DHFBE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 01:01:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100407.220107.55136830.davem@davemloft.net> To: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de Cc: joe@perches.com, grundler@parisc-linux.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca, 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 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100407134228.GC31252@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <20100405171318.GA18915@physik.fu-berlin.de> <1270488982.31062.28.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <20100407134228.GC31252@physik.fu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1639 Lines: 42 From: Adrian Glaubitz Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:42:28 +0200 > 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. This doesn't fix the problem, it just makes the message get emitted in a rate limited manner. I'm not going to apply this, we need to figure out what's causing this problem instead of merely papering over it. Thanks. -- 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/