Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965066AbVIHWmO (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:42:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965061AbVIHWmO (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:42:14 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:64977 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965059AbVIHWmN (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:42:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:41:14 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tommy Christensen Cc: Bogdan.Costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3c59x: read current link status from phy Message-Id: <20050908154114.69307f92.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4320BD96.3060307@tpack.net> References: <200509080125.j881PcL9015847@hera.kernel.org> <431F9899.4060602@pobox.com> <1126184700.4805.32.camel@tsc-6.cph.tpack.net> <1126190554.4805.68.camel@tsc-6.cph.tpack.net> <4320BD96.3060307@tpack.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 501 Lines: 14 Tommy Christensen wrote: > > In order to spare some I/O operations, be more intelligent about > when to read from the PHY. Seems sane. Should we also decrease the polling interval? Perhaps only when the cable is unplugged? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/