Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965090AbVIIABq (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:01:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965089AbVIIABq (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:01:46 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:29066 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965086AbVIIABp (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:01:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4320D0DB.3040405@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:01:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tommy Christensen CC: Andrew Morton , Bogdan.Costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de, 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> <4320C555.4020800@tpack.net> In-Reply-To: <4320C555.4020800@tpack.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 27 Tommy Christensen wrote: > 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. The standard for Becker drivers is 5 seconds if link is down, and 60 seconds if link is up, IIRC. Jeff - 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/