On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:43:30PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: ... > The patch appears to work correctly and does notice links quite a bit > sooner. The only issue I noticed was that if no cable is plugged in, it > starts off with the carrier on (/sys/class/net/eth0/carrier == "1") but > a second later switches the carrier off. How do I track that down? > > Dan
The patch should not affect the set up of the NIC that early. vortex_up() calls netif_carrier_off() before the patch interfere. Perhaps you can see this behavior before the old status is cleared by reading MII_BMSR register. How is it without the patch? Steffen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
