netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] [for 4.13] net: qcom/emac: disable flow control autonegotiation by default

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Message-Id: <20170802.161536.699853895820311600.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:15:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     timur@...eaurora.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [for 4.13] net: qcom/emac: disable flow control
 autonegotiation by default

From: Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 13:39:34 -0500

> On 08/02/2017 01:35 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> Again, any serious installation will have a system watchdog enabled
>> which will break the pause frame bomb.
> 
> Oh well.  I guess I'll have to carry this patch internally.

So you don't want to run a proper watchdog on your systems?
You want them to just hang there and wait for someone to
notice instead?

> What about patch #2?

No real objection.