> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:25:50 +0200 > From: Paul de Weerd <[email protected]> > > Hi David, > > With your diff in, my machine made it to 5 days of uptime. That's a > new record for this machine, so I think we can declare victory here; > thank you! I noticed you've commited the diff, cool :-) > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 10:59:16AM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > | `systat if` is probably the easiest way to see it. with the current > | driver i'm guessing that you see "aq0 up" if the machine is > | booted without a working ethernet cable plugged in. after this diff > | it should be "up:D". if you boot with a working ethernet cable > | plugged in it should be "up:U". > > Now that I've rebooted, I verified this. However, with a cable > connected, `systat if` continues to show 'aq0 up:D', also after > a reboot. Unplugging and replugging the cable makes no difference, it > stays at 'up:D', suggesting the link is down (while the link LED on > the switch connecting to aq0 is lit up). I've not managed to get it > into 'up:U' state.
Unfortunately this breaks the aq(4) interface in my Mac mini. I did a little bit of debugging and determined that aq_update_link_state() never gets called. So the link state never goes up.
