From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751689Ab1H2Gff (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:35:35 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:54226 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751039Ab1H2Gfb (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:35:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:34:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20110829.023408.440980195220010292.davem@davemloft.net> To: stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, kaber@trash.net, mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl, therbert@google.com, jesse@nicira.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com, mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next ] Fix time-lag of IFF_RUNNING flag consistency between vlan and real devices From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <1314540589.3036.12.camel@edumazet-laptop> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:06:28 -0700 (PDT) > This was mostly typical of older hardware that did not have a PHY > interrupt. Many have to poll because the PHY interrupt is simply unreliable.