netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 3/3] qlge: Add watchdog timer.

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Date:	Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:04:27 -0800
From:	Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@...gic.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 3/3] qlge: Add watchdog timer.

> This does a PIO to the chip every single second?
> 
> How about something like 5 or 10 seconds, and use the
> deferrable interfaces so that it's more friendly to
> power management on an otherwise idle system?
>

You are correct that we don't need to check every second.
I will increase the duration and test it out a deferrable timer.

Thanks
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