On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 22:26 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Andy Fleming,
In message 2acbd3e40902041320l3bce93c1p989c4c33ca8e7ae@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Hmmm....I made that change for a reason. Waiting for autonegotiation to finish on a tsec with no link was quite tiresome. If you've hooked up the 4th tsec, and try to boot, you end up waiting for *three* tsecs to timeout. If dhcp fails because the link isn't up you can always try again, or add a delay before dhcp starts so that the link is up.
Why that? Don't you always enable only the interface you are trying to use?
That would be a bug that needs to be fixed.
It seems like the workaround for the "4 tsec autonegotiation delay" you mention is to set a sane "ethact" value when you know which port you are going to be using. However, there is no good workaround for waiting for link other than adding an arbitrary delay to the boot process which is pretty hokey, thus the patch.
Best, Peter