netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ipconfig: add carrier

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Date:   Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:25:26 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     martin.kepplinger@...zinger.com
Cc:     corbet@....net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, manfred.schlaegl@...zinger.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipconfig: add carrier_timeout kernel parameter

From: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@...zinger.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:14:18 +0100

> commit 3fb72f1e6e61 ("ipconfig wait for carrier") added a
> "wait for carrier" policy, with a fixed worst case maximum wait
> of two minutes.
> 
> Now make the wait for carrier timeout configurable on the kernel
> commandline and use the 120s as the default.
> 
> The timeout messages introduced with
> commit 5e404cd65860 ("ipconfig: add informative timeout messages while
> waiting for carrier") are done in a fixed interval of 20 seconds, just
> like they were before (240/12).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@...zinger.com>

Ok, this seems fine for me.

Applied to net-next, thanks.