[PATCH] if_dc cleanups..

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 27 May 2006 12:30, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> Le Thursday 25 May 2006 10:23, Thierry Herbelot a écrit :
> 
> > my dc is still probed and detected with your patch :
> > dc0: <82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> port 0x9400-0x94ff mem
> > 0xd8000000-0xd80000ff irq 19 at device 9.0 on pci0
> > dc0: Reserved 0x100 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x9400
> > miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
> > bmtphy0: <BCM5201 10/100baseTX PHY> on miibus0
> > bmtphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> > dc0: bpf attached
> > dc0: Ethernet address: 00:02:e3:08:63:af
> > dc0: [MPSAFE]
> >
> > the same dc is currently used to update the -current sources over NFS,
> > without any visible side effects.
> 
> one side effect seems to be more watchdog timeouts :
> 
> dc0: watchdog timeout
> dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state
> 
> on a macroscopic level, the NIC is still usable (enough to get a cvs update 
of 
> the full world from an NFS repository).

It shouldn't have affect the operation of the device at all.  Do the probe 
messages in dmesg match the dmesg lines w/o the patch exactly?  Do you have 
before and after dmesg's that I can compare?

-- 
John Baldwin