netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: Increase delay for RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK

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Date:	Tue, 09 Feb 2016 05:04:38 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	haiyangz@...rosoft.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kys@...rosoft.com, olaf@...fle.de,
	vkuznets@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: Increase delay for
 RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Date: Tue,  2 Feb 2016 16:15:56 -0800

> We simulates a link down period for RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE message to
> trigger DHCP renew. User daemons may need multiple seconds to trigger the
> link down event. (e.g. ifplugd: 5sec, network-manager: 4sec.) So update
> this link down period to 10 sec to properly trigger DHCP renew.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>

Two things look really bad about this to me:

1) Any value you choose is arbitrary.  If some new network configuration daemon
   is slower, you will have to change this value again.

   This is _NOT_ sustainable in the long term.

2) It is completely unclear to me why this driver needs to delay at all or
   wait for anything.  I see no other driver having to deal with this issue.

Until you address both of these points I am not going to apply this patch.

Thanks.