Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm2 (PHY reset until link up)

[Dominik Karall <dominik.karall@gmx.net>]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 23:37, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc2/2.
>6.14-rc2-mm2/

hi,
I'm not sure if this bug is in 2.6.14-rc2 too. I get hundreds of these 
messages:
Sep 30 20:12:28 amd64box eth2: PHY reset until link up
Sep 30 20:12:38 amd64box eth2: PHY reset until link up
Sep 30 20:12:48 amd64box eth2: PHY reset until link up
Sep 30 20:12:58 amd64box eth2: PHY reset until link up

eth2 uses the r8169 driver. _No_ network cable was connected at that moment!
here is lspci output:
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel, IRQ 217
        I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
        Memory at fde00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at fdd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

and dmesg:
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
eth2: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth2: RTL8169 at 0xffffc200009ca000, 00:0c:f6:04:87:c0, IRQ 217
r8169: eth2: link down

hth,
dominik

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