On Jul 24, 2006, at 04:39, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > 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.
There are two bugs at play, here. One of which has been solved by a patch, which hasn't been accepted yet. However, there's still a bug, in that the PHY layer assumes that autonegotiation will complete if the link is down. I believe you only see the message if you bring up the interface while the link is down. I'm working on a fix for this. Andy
