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Subject: Re: [git pull] FireWire fixes
From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:02:33 +0200
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On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 02:00 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: 
> Stefan Richter wrote:
> > > Cable disconection/reconnection still results in the link loss till
> > > ifconfig down/up.
> > 
> > Surely a higher-level problem somewhere in firewire-net.
> 
> How to deal with cable glitch? The cable might as well never be
> attached again. A timeout? How long? There's a timeout also in SBP-2 IIRC?
Not that.
I mean I expect that if I plug the cable in, I expect the interface to
start working right away, without need of ifconfig up/down as is the
case with ethernet.
(assuming that I did set the IP of the interface beforehand).

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky