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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:10:10 -0700 From: Valerie Henson <val_henson@...ux.intel.com> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: akpm@...l.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org> Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] [TULIP] Quiet down tulip_stop_rxtx On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:25:10AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Here's the problem with this: this printk is signalling that the DMA > engines have not yet stopped, which is an event of which we should be wary. > > While it makes sense to do this patch, since the complaining cards > appear to work anyway, we also need to take into account the times when > this is not a spurious warning. > > Thus, I would consider maybe adding a warning somewhere in the > DMA-engine-start region of code, that complains if the DMA engines are > already active, or somesuch. Yeah, I agree it's signifying a problem, and we should have a warning (only one) until we figure out what's going on. Put on my to-do list. -VAL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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