Hi, I am observing that a machine with a niu card/driver automatically enables itself and then goes dormant again. [ 4410.930078] niu 0000:10:00.0 eth4: Link is up at 100Mbit/sec, full duplex [ 4410.930137] br0: port 4(eth4) entered forwarding state [ 4410.930156] br0: port 4(eth4) entered forwarding state [ 4420.957745] niu 0000:10:00.0 eth4: Link is down The interface itself is marked UP, and is part of a bridge, if that matters. The kernel version is 3.7.1 on sparc64. 6: eth4: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master br0 state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:21:28:71:32:5a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::221:28ff:fe71:325a/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever At the same time, eth5, to which a cable+machine _is_ connected, randomly goes out. At first I thought it might be the connected peer, but seeing that eth4 randomly does a up-down cycle leads me to assume that niu is doing a cycle here rather than the peer. [ 3839.724721] niu 0000:10:00.1 eth5: Link is down [ 3839.725077] br0: port 5(eth5) entered disabled state [ 3840.725016] niu 0000:10:00.1 eth5: Link is up at 100Mbit/sec, half duplex [ 3840.725195] br0: port 5(eth5) entered forwarding state [ 3840.725327] br0: port 5(eth5) entered forwarding state [ 3855.762171] br0: port 5(eth5) entered forwarding state dmesg for niu: [ 60.158957] niu: niu.c:v1.1 (Apr 22, 2010) [ 60.160457] niu: niu0: Found PHY 002060b1 type MII at phy_port 10 [ 60.160887] niu: niu0: Found PHY 002060b1 type MII at phy_port 11 [ 60.161314] niu: niu0: Found PHY 002060b1 type MII at phy_port 12 [ 60.161739] niu: niu0: Found PHY 002060b1 type MII at phy_port 13 [ 60.168250] niu: niu0: Port 0 [4 RX chans] [6 TX chans] [ 60.168319] niu: niu0: Port 1 [4 RX chans] [6 TX chans] [ 60.168386] niu: niu0: Port 2 [4 RX chans] [6 TX chans] [ 60.168452] niu: niu0: Port 3 [4 RX chans] [6 TX chans] [ 60.168519] niu: niu0: Port 0 RDC tbl(0) [ 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 ] [ 60.168913] niu: niu0: Port 0 RDC tbl(1) [ 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 ] [ 60.169213] niu: niu0: Port 1 RDC tbl(2) [ 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 ] [ 60.169503] niu: niu0: Port 1 RDC tbl(3) [ 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 ] [ 60.169790] niu: niu0: Port 2 RDC tbl(4) [ 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 ] [ 60.170078] niu: niu0: Port 2 RDC tbl(5) [ 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 ] [ 60.170366] niu: niu0: Port 3 RDC tbl(6) [ 12 13 14 15 12 13 14 15 12 13 14 15 12 13 14 15 ] [ 60.170657] niu: niu0: Port 3 RDC tbl(7) [ 12 13 14 15 12 13 14 15 12 13 14 15 12 13 14 15 ] [ 60.416607] niu: eth4: NIU Ethernet 00:21:28:71:32:5a [ 60.416679] niu: eth4: Port type[XMAC] mode[1G:COPPER] XCVR[MII] phy[mif] [ 60.624669] niu: eth5: NIU Ethernet 00:21:28:71:32:5b [ 60.624741] niu: eth5: Port type[XMAC] mode[1G:COPPER] XCVR[MII] phy[mif] [ 60.832774] niu: eth6: NIU Ethernet 00:21:28:71:32:5c [ 60.832845] niu: eth6: Port type[BMAC] mode[1G:COPPER] XCVR[MII] phy[mif] [ 61.040806] niu: eth7: NIU Ethernet 00:21:28:71:32:5d [ 61.040877] niu: eth7: Port type[BMAC] mode[1G:COPPER] XCVR[MII] phy[mif] lspci: 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Multithreaded 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Device 0000 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 00000015 Memory at 01000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at 00d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Memory at 00d08000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Expansion ROM at 00e00000 [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable+ 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=32 Masked- Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [94] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?> Capabilities: [9c] Vendor Specific Information: Len=40 <?> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Kernel driver in use: niu 10:00.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Multithreaded 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Device 0000 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 00000016 Memory at 02000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at 00d10000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Memory at 00d18000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Expansion ROM at 00f00000 [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable+ 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=32 Masked- Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [94] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?> Capabilities: [9c] Vendor Specific Information: Len=40 <?> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Kernel driver in use: niu 10:00.2 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Multithreaded 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Device 0000 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 00000017 Memory at 03000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at 00d20000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Memory at 00d28000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Expansion ROM at 04000000 [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable+ 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=32 Masked- Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [94] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?> Capabilities: [9c] Vendor Specific Information: Len=40 <?> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Kernel driver in use: niu 10:00.3 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Multithreaded 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Device 0000 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 00000014 Memory at 05000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at 00d30000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Memory at 00d38000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Expansion ROM at 04100000 [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable+ 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=32 Masked- Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [94] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?> Capabilities: [9c] Vendor Specific Information: Len=40 <?> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Kernel driver in use: niu Any other info needed? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html