Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965071AbVIHXKE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:10:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965073AbVIHXKE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:10:04 -0400 Received: from ip18.tpack.net ([213.173.228.18]:17117 "HELO mail.tpack.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965072AbVIHXKB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:10:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4320C555.4020800@tpack.net> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:12:21 +0200 From: Tommy Christensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton 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 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> <20050908154114.69307f92.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050908154114.69307f92.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 642 Lines: 18 Andrew Morton wrote: > Should we also decrease the polling interval? Perhaps only when the cable > is unplugged? Sounds like a plan. 60 seconds certainly strikes me as being very slow. OTOH, I'm not aware of the reasoning behind this choice in the first place. It might make sense for some odd setups. Since I don't even have any HW to play around with, I think I'll step down for now. -Tommy - 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/