From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 23:11:43 -0700
> On Wed, 9 May 2007 15:45:58 +1000 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:31:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > > > Hmm, I don't see it here (probably because we use different NICs). > > > But does this help? > > > > Thinking about it again I don't think it will help you because if your > > carrier started out as off then it would've been considered an urgent > > event anyway. > > > > So what NIC are you using? And where abouts in the boot process is it > > hanging? For exmaple, is it hanging when obtaining a DHCP address? > > > > In any case, this patch can't hurt. So here's one with a changelog: > > > > [NET] link_watch: Eliminate potential delay on wrap-around > > hm, that fixed it. Do we know why? ;) I wonder if, because of how we initialize jiffies on bootup to find wraparound bugs, urgent_event is always true. If it is always true, linkwatch_nextevent will never get updated. Herbert's patch indirectly corrects that. In the mean time I'll stick Herbert's patch into net-2.6 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
