netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: asix: Avoid looping when the device does not respond

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Message-Id: <20161014.160726.618328787989246669.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:07:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     linux@...ck-us.net
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: asix: Avoid looping when the device does not
 respond

From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:43:16 -0700

> Check answers from USB stack and avoid re-sending the request
> multiple times if the device does not respond.
> 
> This fixes the following problem, observed with a probably flaky adapter.
 ...
> Since the USB timeout is 5 seconds, and the operation is retried 30 times,
> this results in
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

Applied, thanks.