Re: [PATCH] Gigabit Ethernet support for forcedeth

From: Tim Waugh
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 11:22:07 EST


On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 03:16:12PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> Tim Waugh wrote:
>
> >Works fine if I back out that patch.
> >
> >
> >
> The patch rewrites the phy initialization. Backing it out is not really
> a solution: I have one report that it fixes the link detection, without
> the patch no link is detected.

I wasn't suggesting it as a solution, just trying to provide data.
Now you have a report that it breaks link detection. :-)

> Which phy is used by your board? Could you enable dprintk (near line
> 115) and reload the driver?

I've enabled dprintk and captured *.debug syslog output from a normal
boot. Here is the result:

http://cyberelk.net/tim/tmp/forcedeth-debug

Hope you can make some sense of it. Let me know what else I can try.

Tim.
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