Steffen Klassert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The patch _should_ do the following: > > 1. Set the polling intervall for media changes to 5 seconds if link is down > and 60 seconds if link is up. > 2. Handle netif_carrier_{on,of} and check for media changes in > proper way by using mii_check_media() in the mii case. > 3. Handle netif_carrier_{on,of} also if media is forced to 10baseT/100baseTx. > 4. Use ethtool_op_get_link instead of vortex_get_link. > So it is possible to test with ethtool.
This makes a 3c980-TX NIC start throwing Tx timeout errors once it's put under a bit of load. If the patch had been separated into a series of four (as it should have been) then I'd have been able to identify the offending one. But I don't really have the time to work out what's gone wrong here, sorry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html