netdev - Re: bonding with 3c59x driver

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Message-ID: <20120214110604.GI32155@v3-1054>
Date:	Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:06:04 +0100
From:	Steffen Klassert <klassert@...hematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding with 3c59x driver

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:22:10AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> Well I am still curious why the 3c59x driver has such slow polling when 
> other drivers I have been testing are able to report almost instantly 
> when I remove a network cable. Could it be that other network chips 
> generate an interrupt on cable removal and the 3com chips do not?
> 

Yes, at least some of the supported chips do not generate an interrupt
on cable removal, so we have to check for this with a timer.
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