From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: phylib does not wait for link
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:06:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121024080607.GL21588@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121024074615.GU27665@pengutronix.de>
On 09:46 Wed 24 Oct , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> The current phylib behaviour is unusable for unattended network boot, we
> need to do something about it.
>
> We currently have no instance that would wait until a link comes up.
> This may work for the default-3-seconds-boot-timeout which is enough for
> most phys, but fails with smaller timeouts.
>
> There are several places in which we could wait for a link to come up, I
> have no idea which one is the best:
>
> - eth_send
yes with timeout
> - phylib
no
> - in the protocols (dhcp, ping, ...)
no too many
>
> Anyway, this deserves fixing before the next release.
>
> Sascha
>
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