netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: make driver settling time configurable

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Message-ID: <1e08910b-8ae2-4985-8423-45a1a823cefc@lunn.ch>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 15:06:15 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: David Ventura <david@...idv.dev>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@...driver.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: make driver settling time configurable

On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:44:40PM +0100, David Ventura wrote:
> During IP auto configuration, some drivers apparently need to wait a
> certain length of time to settle; as this is not true for all drivers,
> make this length of time configurable.

Do you see this problem with multiple drivers, or just one in
particular. To me this seems like a driver bug, and you are just
papering over the cracks.

	Andrew