Hi everybody, I'm not sure if this issue is ppc-specific, so forgive me if it should have been reported to the drivers/net/phy maintainer.
When using the MPC8248 FCC ethernet ports, the following messages are printed by the kernel on the console when a link is down (ethernet cable unplugged): Trying 100/FULL Trying 100/HALF Trying 100/HALF Trying 100/HALF ... This goes on forever, with a new message every 5 or 10 seconds. The message is printed by drivers/net/phy/phy.c at line 463. Those messages are pretty annoying. Commenting the pr_info() call gave me some rest, but a proper fix is probably needed. For the record, I'm using FCC1 and FCC2 with an LXT973 phy in bit-banging mode. Laurent Pinchart