Re: [PATCH 2/3] cxacru: Poll for device status more frequently.

[Duncan Sands]

> The device is only polled for status every 5 seconds yet status updates
> occur as often as every second - when the line is down the status changes
> between "down" and "attempting to activate" every 2 seconds.  

How much overhead does polling involve?  [A particularly problematic case
is when polling is failing - I've occasionally seen speedtouch modems
where polling fails every time (not sure why) and for some reason this
increases system load considerably, which is why the speedtch driver has
a dynamic polling interval].  If polling overhead is basically nothing,
then this change is OK with me.  Otherwise the next simplest thing to do
is to have a short polling interval when the line is down, and a longer
one when the line is up.

Ciao,

Duncan.
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