Re: [linux-tr] ibmtr driver hangs on boot with no network connected

[Paul Norton <pnorton@ccnusa.com>]

I did add code to correct this.  It should time out after a few
attempts to open the adapter. 

Michael R. Eckhoff writes:
 > 
 > I'm FAIRLY sure that some code was added to prevent this in the 2.2 kernels. 
 > So it should stop and wait and retry later on to open the ring.  Check the
 > patchlist on linuxhq.org/com/something and read through the changelog.  It
 > should be in there changes to ibmtr.c.
 > 
 > Paul would be the man on this one.  So you get something from him at the same
 > time you get this, trust him. :)
 > 
 > Mike
 >