From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:24:26 -0700 > David Miller wrote: >> I have card/switch combinations that take up to 10 seconds to >> negotiate a proper link. > > What types of delays are these timeouts supposed to > cover? The problem is that if you don't first give at least some time for the link to come up, the remaining time it takes the link to come up will end up chewing into the actual bootp/dhcp protocol timeouts. And that's what we're trying to avoid. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
