On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:02:18 +0100, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:59:04AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>>> 	I've knocked up a quick diff to 3.x to make the receiver lock-up
>>> 	workaround conditional on link1 being set on the fxp interface.
>>> 	It will report if the workaround may be needed at bootup.
>>
>> This should be noted in the man page IMHO.
> 
>  	How about:
> 
>  	    Some chipset revisions can suffer from a receiver-side
>  	    lockup bug. This can be mitigated by resetting the chip
>  	    every sixteen seconds without traffic. Since the probe
>  	    for affected chipsets generates false positives the
>  	    workaround is not enabled by default, but the boot
>  	    messages will indicate if an interface may have this
>  	    issue. This option is enabled by setting the "link1"
>  	    option with ifconfig(8).

I would add it under DIAGNOSTICS together with the actual message, and
mention what negative impact may have enabling this flag.

Like "(...) false positives and the workaround causes loss of responsivity
during resets, especially noticeable when playing audio, it is not enabled (...)

Thanks	Pavel