From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932616AbZHRBbE (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:31:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758567AbZHRBbD (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:31:03 -0400 Received: from g5t0006.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.43]:16859 "EHLO g5t0006.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753104AbZHRBbC (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:31:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4A8A0454.8000902@hp.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:31:00 -0700 From: Rick Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060601 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: tim.bird@am.sony.com, r.schwebel@pengutronix.de, vda.linux@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, kernel@pengutronix.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: new ipdelay= option for faster netboot References: <20090814204305.GA31727@pengutronix.de> <4A89AC40.2040109@am.sony.com> <4A89DB15.6060101@am.sony.com> <20090817.180323.253692704.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20090817.180323.253692704.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > I have card/switch combinations that take up to 10 seconds to > negotiate a proper link. Gotta love it when things adhere to specs... rick jones has also experienced nic/whatnot combinations that are far from IEEE specs... :(