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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>,
	Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Late Broadcom link detection makes IP config (bootp) fail
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:17:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011022131735.28492@smtp.adsl.oleane.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BD3A110.40703@metaparadigm.com>


>Some of GMAC initialisation seems to be delayed and done asynchronously.
>Shouldn't link be detected and the interface brought up before return
>from the init function? Otherwise it is impossible to use this driver
>with IP autoconfig and NFS root.

It's not supposed to be synchronous. It's ipconfig's fault not to wait
long enough.

Ben.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-22 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-22  2:31 Late Broadcom link detection makes IP config (bootp) fail Michael Clark
2001-10-22  2:57 ` Tom Rini
2001-10-22  3:17   ` Michael Clark
2001-10-22  3:28     ` Tom Rini
2001-10-22  3:24   ` Michael Clark
2001-10-22  3:28     ` Tom Rini
2001-10-22  4:31       ` Michael Clark
2001-10-22 13:17         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2001-10-22 13:16     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-22 15:41       ` Tom Rini
2001-10-22 15:46         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-10-22 16:42         ` Michael Clark

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