I got a deadlock at boot with netconsole when the netword card did not have a cable connected. This patch fixes this by limiting the number of retries. Also when we run into the device spinlock dont
It should be waiting for carrier detect before proceeding. What NIC is that? I'm sure five retries is not enough. Two patches? Again, I don't think we should give up so easily. -- Mathematics is the
[sorry for the late answer, but you dont seem to have cced the answer to me so I lost it until now] e1000 Well, infinite is definitely too many. And the early netconsole code already waits for carrie