netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] ipconfig wait for carrier

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Date:	Thu, 19 May 2011 15:35:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	micha@...i.hopto.org
Cc:	dcbw@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ipconfig wait for carrier

From: Micha Nelissen <micha@...i.hopto.org>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 21:24:42 +0200

> Dan Williams wrote:
>> Shouldn't the code still wait at *least* one second?  Not all drivers
>> support carrier detect, and those that don't set the carrier always-on.
>> Thus older devices that used to have 1s to get carrier in line (even if
>> they don't report it) now have only 10ms.
> 
> Btw, it does not matter much, there are 2 cases:
> 1) DHCP: dhcp will retry every few seconds, so if link is not up, then a
> later try will succeed
> 2) Static IP: an ARP request is performed every second, so the second
> request will be answered instead of the first.
> 
> Even if link is "fake up" by driver and not actually up after 10 msecs,
> things will continue to work (eventually), after a second, just like now.

But this eats one of the CONF_SEND_RETRIES attempts, which is only 6.
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