solution to printk() blocking interrupts?

[Jon Smirl]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> Hello, I wrote:
>
>  Not sure if Stephen was the right person to CC, including Matt now...
>
>>>>> What controls this? "carrier detect appears untrustworthy, waiting 4
>>>>> seconds"
>>>>> Get that fixed and this patch could be useful,
>
>>>> Does the driver properly uses netif_carrier_on/off to signal the
>>>> system when the link is up/down ?
>
>>>  Implementing the poll_controller() method in the network driver is
>>> usually
>
>>>  Looks like the answer is "no"...
>
>>  Hm... it uses phylib, so probably it does that. That message and a 4 s
>> pause appears if the carrier is seen in <10 ms after opening the device.
>
>   Oops, not 10 -- 100 ms (HZ / 10).
>
>> Maybe this threshold needs to be changed?
>
>   Seems like too much indeed.

The link is coming up, but it appears that netconsole has already
decided to wait 4s.

mpc52xx MII bus: probed
net eth0: Using PHY at MDIO address 0
netconsole: local port 6666
netconsole: local IP 192.168.1.11
netconsole: interface eth0
netconsole: remote port 514
netconsole: remote IP 192.168.1.4
netconsole: remote ethernet address 00:19:d1:e4:0f:8d
netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
net eth0: attached phy 0 to driver Generic PHY
netconsole: carrier detect appears untrustworthy, waiting 4 seconds
PHY: f0003000:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full
console [netcon0] enabled
netconsole: network logging started



>
> WBR, Sergei
>



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