netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: remove link polling

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20151007.025907.365366822224236229.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 07 Oct 2015 02:59:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, linux@...ck-us.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: remove link polling

From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 18:09:01 +0100

> The link status is polled by the generic phy layer, there's no need to
> duplicate that polling with additional polling.  This additional polling
> adds additional MDIO traffic, and races with the generic phy layer,
> resulting in missing or duplicated link status messages.
> 
> Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>

Applied.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html