Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:17:15 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: netpoll/netconsole minor tweaks |
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* Matt Mackall (mpm@selenic.com) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:24:47AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > Here's a couple small tweaks. The first is to netpoll_setup. The settle > > time was too short for my e100, and the system would hang. > > This probably ought to be a command line arg, my tg3 apparently > doesn't need it at all. One second is what's in the nfs-root stuff, > perhaps they need to share an arg, I changed it to two because my tlan > was dropping stuff (but not hanging - that may be a driver bug). > Ideally, I'd like to find a way to wait until the damn thing is up > before sending.
Yeah, I agree, that seems best.
> net/ipv4/ipconfig.c: > /* Define the friendly delay before and after opening net devices */ > #define CONF_PRE_OPEN (HZ/2) /* Before opening: 1/2 second */ > #define CONF_POST_OPEN (1*HZ) /* After opening: 1 second */ > > Anyway, I'm still struggling with getting stuff working on my Opteron > box, care to take a stab at it?
Sure, I'll poke at it tomorrow, unless you get to it first.
> > The second > > is to netconsole so that it registers a console with CON_PRINTBUFFER. > > This helps debugging early bootup issues where you want to capture data > > from before netconsole is initialized. Perhaps it should be a param > > to netconsole? > > I think this can probably be unconditional. Merged.
Ok, cool. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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