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On Friday 09 June 2006 07:23, David Miller wrote: > From: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> > Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:13:48 -0700 > > > netconsole should retry. There is no timeout programmed here since that might > > lose important information, and you rather want netconsole to survive an odd > > unplugged cable then to lose vital debugging information when the system is > > busy for instance. (losing link will cause the interface to be down and thus > > the queue to be stopped) > > I completely disagree that netpoll should loop when the ethernet > cable is plugged out. Currently it is a bit dumb and doesn't distingush the various cases well. I submitted a patch to loop to be a bit more clever at some point. It can be still found in the netdev archives. -Andi - 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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