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

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Message-ID: <20130722224543.GA6268@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:45:43 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	lekensteyn@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, nic_swsd@...ltek.com
Subject: Re: [r8169] About the "PHY reset until link up" warning

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> :
> From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
[...]
> > 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 could agree if there had not been any progress made with runtime
power management.

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

I know something is very wrong when it repeats itself a lot in a PR.

Feel free to take any message silenting patch if someone feels it
worth.

-- 
Ueimor
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