Re: [PATCH net 5/6] net: hns3: fix wrong print link down up

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

>     Now i wounder if you are fixing the wrong thing. Maybe you should be
>     fixing the PHY so it does not report up and then down? You say 'very
>     snall intervals', which should in fact be 1 second. So is the PHY
>     reporting link for a number of poll intervals? 1min to 10 minutes?
> 
>               Andrew
> 
> Yes, according to the log records, the phy polls every second,
> but the link status changes take time.
> Generally, it takes 10 seconds for the phy to detect link down,
> but occasionally it takes several minutes to detect link down,

What PHY driver is this?

It is not so clear what should actually happen with auto-neg turned
off. With it on, and the link going down, the PHY should react after
about 1 second. It is not supposed to react faster than that, although
some PHYs allow fast link down notification to be configured.

Have you checked 802.3 to see what it says about auto-neg off and link
down detection?

I personally would not suppress this behaviour in the MAC
driver. Otherwise you are going to have funny combinations of special
cases of a feature which very few people actually use, making your
maintenance costs higher.

	    Andrew