netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] net: spacemit: Clarify stat timeout comments and messages

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Message-ID: <20260122073043.3089d435@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:30:43 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Vivian Wang <wangruikang@...as.ac.cn>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Yixun Lan <dlan@...too.org>, Chukun Pan
 <amadeus@....edu.cn>, Michael Opdenacker
 <michael.opdenacker@...tcommit.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, spacemit@...ts.linux.dev,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: spacemit: Clarify stat timeout comments and
 messages

On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:39:06 +0800 Vivian Wang wrote:
> > Because if it's the latter we should be able to skip reading the stats
> > when link is down (still racy but better than waiting in cases we can
> > detect?)  
> 
> If checking the link is definitely up as a condition for updating stats
> would be acceptable, then maybe the original patch from the linked
> thread [2] can also be adopted?

Yes, speaking under correction if Andrew disagrees, but could you
squash those two patches ([2] and the v2) into one?