Re: [PATCH] net: make driver settling time configurable

[David]

On 2/5/24 15:06, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:44:40PM +0100, David Ventura wrote:
> > During IP auto configuration, some drivers apparently need to wait a
> > certain length of time to settle; as this is not true for all drivers,
> > make this length of time configurable.
> Do you see this problem with multiple drivers, or just one in
> particular. To me this seems like a driver bug, and you are just
> papering over the cracks.
>
> 	Andrew
I don't know of any drivers that may need to wait -- I noticed
this code path being hit when building a minimal kernel that only
had a virtio network device.
At least for the virtio device, the wait is unnecessary and bloats
the time to boot a minimal kernel from 15ms to 33ms.

    David