Re: debugging lack of link events

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:

> I'm looking at this too, my e1000 driver seems to take a _really_ long
> time to notify the netlink socket that the device has changed status
> (like 20s or so?).  That's not cool.  I'm attempting to distill a
> testcase that I could send to kernel people, you might be able to use it
> too to narrow the causes down.

Well, I do see the kernel log message almost immediately.  I haven't 
looked into
the kernel code-path between the link-up printk() and the netlink message.

Anyways, I need to leave for dinner -- I should be back in several hours to
follow up.

> Dan

-derek

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