From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:43:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:43:24 -0400 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:8386 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:43:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3B1BD6C0.9F54047E@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 14:43:12 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bogdan Costescu Cc: jamal , Alan Cox , Pete Zaitcev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bogdan Costescu wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, jamal wrote: > > > Still, the tx watchdogs are a good source of fault detection in the case > > of non-availabilty of MII detection and even with the presence of MII. > > Agreed. But my question was a bit different: is there any legit situation > where Tx timeouts can happen in a row _without_ having a link loss ? In > this situation, we'd have false positives... yes -- Jeff Garzik | Echelon words of the day, from The Register: Building 1024 | FRU Lebed HALO Spetznaz Al Amn al-Askari Glock 26 MandrakeSoft | Steak Knife Kill the President anarchy echelon | nuclear assassinate Roswell Waco World Trade Center