From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Erwan Velu <erwanaliasr1@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] ipconfig: Inform user if carrier is not ready
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:19:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50538352.6080406@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505380A0.7020407@gmail.com>
On 09/14/2012 12:08 PM, Erwan Velu wrote:
> From: Erwan Velu <erwanaliasr1@gmail.com>
>
> While using the ip= option at the cmdline, the kernel can hold the boot
> process for 2 minutes (CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT) if the carrier is not
> present.
>
> While waiting the carrier, user is not informed about this situation and
> so could think the kernel is frozen.
>
> If we don't get the carrier after some seconds, let's display a message to
> inform the user about the remaining time before reaching the timeout.
That should be much better than upwards of 120 messages.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-14 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-13 20:21 Remarks and comments about ipconfig behavior Erwan Velu
2012-09-13 20:31 ` David Miller
2012-09-13 20:37 ` Erwan Velu
2012-09-13 20:45 ` David Miller
2012-09-13 21:59 ` [PATCH] ipconfig: Inform user if carrier is not ready Erwan Velu
2012-09-14 5:36 ` Francois Romieu
[not found] ` <50525C5D.8040302@hp.com>
2012-09-14 19:08 ` [PATCH V2] " Erwan Velu
2012-09-14 19:17 ` David Miller
2012-09-14 19:30 ` [PATCH V3] " Erwan Velu
2012-09-14 19:42 ` David Miller
2012-09-14 20:13 ` Erwan Velu
2012-09-14 20:23 ` David Miller
2012-09-14 20:59 ` Erwan Velu
2012-09-14 19:31 ` [PATCH V2] " Erwan Velu
2012-09-14 19:19 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2012-09-15 16:18 ` Remarks and comments about ipconfig behavior Erwan Velu
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