Link up/down messages from 5200 ethernet driver

[Jon Smirl]

On 12/5/07, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> 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?

That's the serial port output.
dmesg is ok.

Nothing else I do can mess up the serial port.

>
> Cheers,
> g.
>
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> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
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