netdev - Re: Broadcom 5709 take long time to bring up

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Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:25:57 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Mitchell Erblich <erblichs@...thlink.net>
CC:	Benjamin Li <benli@...adcom.com>, Joe Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	"terry.liu@...cle.com" <terry.liu@...cle.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Broadcom 5709 take long time to bring up

Mitchell Erblich wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Benjamin Li wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Joe,
>>
>>Just a couple of quick questions:
>>
>>1.  It is possible that autonegotiation could take in the orders of
>>seconds depending on the remote partner.   
> 
> 
> No. It happens in ms.
> 
> Mitchell Erblich

Both may be correct, depending on the context.  The IEEE specs likely mandate 
that autonegotiation take no longer than N ms, but there may indeed be kit out 
there that takes rather longer...

rick jones
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