Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:29:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20090621.142930.251405926.davem@davemloft.net>
To: simon@fire.lp0.eu
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: add phy_reset parameter
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:45:25 +0100

> When booting over the network the physical link will already be up
> and configured appropriately, so there is no need to reset it and
> cause auto-negotiation to occur again. Adding an option to disable
> this makes it possible to avoid a 2 second delay while booting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>

This is getting out of control.

We're not going to add a hundred different obscure module options to
eliminate delays and device resets.
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