Problem with igb(4) updated to version 2.0.7

[Jack Vogel]

LOL, ya, I have one of those switches that takes that long, a
Dell 5224,  takes some getting used to when you're used to
back to back speeds :)

There hasn't been any crying for this feature so I'm disinclined,
however if more than 1 or two want it I would reconsider.

Jack


On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:36 PM, <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:

> Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There are pros and cons either way you do things. I was talking
> > to some of our Linux crew, they recently changed things so it
> > would shut down the phy, but that doesn't always make everyone
> > happy either.
>
> In particular, depending on the type of switch and how it is
> configured, it may take 30 seconds or so after link is restored for
> the switch to do spanning-tree validation before it will start to
> pass traffic.
>
> There may be something to be said for making the driver's behavior
> configurable.
>