Link up/down messages from 5200 ethernet driver

[Grant Likely]

On 12/5/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does the fec5200 driver sometimes not print 'PHY' correctly?
>
> phyCORE-MPC5200B-tiny login: TؤV� f0003000:10 - Link is Down
> T�Y: f0003000:10 - Link is Up - 100/Full
> T�Y: f0003000:10 - Link is Down
> PHY: f0003000:10 - Link is Up - 100/Full

Weird; that line comes from drivers/net/phy/phy.c in
phy_print_status(), and it's just a a pr_info statement.  I suppose it
might be a stack overrun, but I'd expect more severe symptoms if that
was the case.

That *looks* like a serial stream corruption.  Is that the output of
your serial port?  Does dmesg show the same corruption?

Cheers,
g.

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