Re: [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: shorten carrier detect timeout

[Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:09:28AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >Shorten carrier detect timeout to 4 seconds.
> 
> The carrier detection looks partially broken to me. The current logic
> detects an instantly available carrier as flaky because
> netif_carrier_ok() takes less than 1/10s. This patch does what
> I assume is intended, make sure the carrier is stable for 1/10s.

Looks ok, but I've been meaning to change the second loop to something
like msleep(). 

Did you try this with a card that otherwise goes into the wait?

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