On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:50:25AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 09 June 2006 07:23, David Miller wrote: > > From: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:13:48 -0700 > > > > > netconsole should retry. There is no timeout programmed here since that > > > might > > > lose important information, and you rather want netconsole to survive an > > > odd > > > unplugged cable then to lose vital debugging information when the system > > > is > > > busy for instance. (losing link will cause the interface to be down and > > > thus > > > the queue to be stopped) > > > > I completely disagree that netpoll should loop when the ethernet > > cable is plugged out. > > Currently it is a bit dumb and doesn't distingush the various cases > well. > > I submitted a patch to loop to be a bit more clever at some point. It can be > still > found in the netdev archives.
Agreed that timeouts should happen. IIRC, the trouble with your patch was that it a) timed out on far too short a timescale and b) locked up on my box. Unfortunately, so did my own patch, which made timeouts approximately 1ms. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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
