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From: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] [TULIP]  Quiet down tulip_stop_rxtx
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:10:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070316001010.GE5291@nifty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F96556.10205@garzik.org>

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:25:10AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Here's the problem with this:  this printk is signalling that the DMA 
> engines have not yet stopped, which is an event of which we should be wary.
> 
> While it makes sense to do this patch, since the complaining cards 
> appear to work anyway, we also need to take into account the times when 
> this is not a spurious warning.
> 
> Thus, I would consider maybe adding a warning somewhere in the 
> DMA-engine-start region of code, that complains if the DMA engines are 
> already active, or somesuch.

Yeah, I agree it's signifying a problem, and we should have a warning
(only one) until we figure out what's going on.  Put on my to-do list.

-VAL

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-16  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-12  9:59 [patch 0/4] [TULIP] Tulip updates Valerie Henson
2007-03-12  9:31 ` [patch 1/6] [TULIP] From: Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com>, Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>, Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.org> Valerie Henson
2007-03-15 15:20   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-12  9:31 ` [patch 2/6] [TULIP] From: Thibaut VARENE <T-Bone@parisc-linux.org> Valerie Henson
2007-03-12  9:31 ` [patch 3/6] [TULIP] fix for Lite-On 82c168 PNIC Valerie Henson
2007-03-15 15:21   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-12  9:31 ` [patch 4/6] [TULIP] Quiet down tulip_stop_rxtx Valerie Henson
2007-03-15 15:25   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-16  0:10     ` Valerie Henson [this message]
2007-03-17 19:05     ` Grant Grundler
2007-03-12  9:31 ` [patch 5/6] [TULIP] Fix SytemError typo Valerie Henson
2007-03-15 15:29   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-12  9:31 ` [patch 6/6] [TULIP] Rev tulip version Valerie Henson
2007-03-12  9:59 ` [patch 1/4] [TULIP] fix for Lite-On 82c168 PNIC Valerie Henson
2007-03-15 12:40   ` Mikael Pettersson
2007-03-12  9:59 ` [patch 2/4] [TULIP] Quiet down tulip_stop_rxtx Valerie Henson
2007-03-12  9:59 ` [patch 3/4] [TULIP] Fix SytemError typo Valerie Henson
2007-03-12  9:59 ` [patch 4/4] [TULIP] Rev tulip version Valerie Henson
2007-03-12 10:44   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-03-12 14:07     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-13 17:07       ` Andy Gospodarek

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