Re: ethtool phys_id sleeps for long periods with rtnl_lock taken

2005-08-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:08:36 +1000 > Maybe we should instead fire off the blink timer, return immediately > and stop the blink when our timeout has been exceeded. If the user > wanted to clear a blink they could then issue another ethtool call with > a

ethtool phys_id sleeps for long periods with rtnl_lock taken

2005-08-18 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, We had a bad ethernet card that wouldnt initialise, so I figured we could blink all other ethernets in the box to identify the bad one. I was surprised to find we could only blink one card at a time, the other ethtool processes were all blocked in D state. It turns out the ethtool ioctl take