MSK nic driver issue

[M. Warner Losh]

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            Matthias Gamsjager <mgamsjager at gmail.com> writes:
: Hello,
: 
: I have an issue with the MSK nic driver under 8-stable. problem is
: that during the kernel boot the link status changes couple of times.
: I'm experimenting with iscsi boot at the moment and just before  iscsi
: is scanning for luns the interface link status changes from up to down
: and back to up about 1s later. This is enough for iscsi to loose
: connection with the disk.
: 
: FXP nic works great and can boot from iscsi lun tho.
: 
: 
: this there a way to fix this?

You may need to debounce the status of the link reported by the
PHY...  That's what's causing this...

Warner