netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] netpoll: Introduce netpoll_carrier

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Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:11:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	avorontsov@...mvista.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] netpoll: Introduce netpoll_carrier_timeout kernel
 option

From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:30:11 +0400

> Some PHYs require longer timeouts for carrier detection, and
> auto-negotiation process may take indefinite amount of time.
> 
> It may be inconvenient to force longer timeouts for sane PHYs,
> so let's introduce a kernel command line option.
> 
> Since we're using module_param(), the option also can be
> changed in runtime.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>

Seems reasonable, applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
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