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From: Felix Radensky <felix@embedded-sol.com>
Subject: Re: tg3: link is permanently down after ifdown and ifup
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:41:28 +0200
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Hi, Matt

Felix Radensky wrote:
> Hi, Matt
>
> Matt Carlson wrote:
>>>
>>> There was another problem in 2.6.32 that I reported, namely kernel 
>>> soft lockup
>>> when link is synchronized at 100Mbit/sec and tg3 with 57780 goes 
>>> down . Were
>>> you able to reproduce it ?
>>>     
>>
>> No, but perhaps I don't understand the problem well enough.  Are you
>> saying that you encounter the problem when you run
>> 'ifconfig bcm57780 down', or is it that losing link itself causes the
>> problem?
>>
>>   
> It is enough to connect the NIC to 10/100 switch and run 'ifconfig 
> ethX down' to reproduce
> the problem.
>
Did you have a chance to look into this ?

Thanks.

Felix.