On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 18:28 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:47 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > > > > Highlights (1721 non-merge commits, this has to be a record of some > > sort): > > Lowlight: it completely breaks my machine with r8169 ethernet. In the > networkmanager applet, it claims no cable connection, which is a bit > odd, because (a) it works with an older kernel and (b) the kernel > messages actually say > > r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: link up
NM calls ETHTOOL_GLINK and if that returns success, NM expects the driver to support carrier detection. NM then listens to netlink for device flags changes, and uses IFF_LOWER_UP to determine carrier on/off state. NM does not use NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED or any of the other ETHTOOL_GFEATURES flags yet, but will in the future. Is the link status accurately reflected by /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier ? Dan > but nothing actually works. > > r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded > r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xffffc90010ece000, > e0:cb:4e:95:1a:d7, XID 083000c0 IRQ 53 > r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx > checksumming: ko] > > Any ideas? > > Linus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/