[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 26/28] IB/ipath - print warning if LID not acquired and link ACTIVE within one minute

[Arthur Jones]

hi jason, ...

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:40:06PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 03:25:56PM -0700, Arthur Jones wrote:
> 
> > does this mean that there's a patch pending
> > to remove the gazillion link down messages
> > in drivers/net?
> 
> These days alot of the ethernet drivers use one of the mii phy general
> codes that cause those messages to be printed..
> 
> The ethernet drivers are a bit of a bad example because there is alot
> of variations of the code to monitor the phy state machines so for
> consistency with the general mii stuff they have to print the message
> on their own. :|

ok, thanks for info... so then, what kind of mii
like infrastructure can i use to print out a
message when i expect a LID and i don't get one?

i didn't see anything in the IB code, did i miss
something?

arthur