netdev - Re: [r8169] About the "PHY reset until link up" warning

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Message-Id: <20130722.144850.493762080108085770.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:48:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	romieu@...zoreil.com
Cc:	lekensteyn@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, nic_swsd@...ltek.com
Subject: Re: [r8169] About the "PHY reset until link up" warning

From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:43:58 +0200

> I can change my mind but I haven't seen much need for a policy
> change yet.

In every case where this issue has popped up, we have decided that
printing messages when the cable is simply unplugged is very
undesirable.

I used to print messages on link failure in all the early drivers I
wrote, it was a bad decision.
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