On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:32:50AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:11:38AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > >>In message: <20050907211811.GA19570_at_odin.ac.hmc.edu> > >> Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net> writes: > >>: Hmm, upon further testing, I think there may be a problem with the > >>: fxp(4) driver. > >> > >>You mean like the driver never asynchronously querries the miibus to > >>find out what the state of the link is when it isn't in the UP state? > > > > > >I certainly see that on the em nics on my laptop and I've heard claims > >of a similar problems with fxp nics. I don't see it with other em > >nics. Sam reports that it seems to be a bug specific to the em hardware > >in thinkpads. That's not the only issue in this case, but it's one of > >them. > > Ah, I don't believe I said there was a bug specific to thinkpads; I only > said that I had observed issues with the em devices on my thinkpads. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was a thinkpad specific issue, just specific to some classes of hardware, the bit in many thinkpads being one example. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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