linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: dsa: qca8k: reduce mgmt ethernet timeout

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Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:39:50 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: dsa: qca8k: reduce mgmt ethernet
 timeout

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:16:33 +0200 Christian Marangi wrote:
> The current mgmt ethernet timeout is set to 100ms. This value is too
> big and would slow down any mdio command in case the mgmt ethernet
> packet have some problems on the receiving part.
> Reduce it to just 5ms to handle case when some operation are done on the
> master port that would cause the mgmt ethernet to not work temporarily.
> 
> Fixes: 5950c7c0a68c ("net: dsa: qca8k: add support for mgmt read/write in Ethernet packet")
> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>

If it's a fix it should go to net as well. But no need to repost,
we'll just apply it there since the fix is simple.