[PATCH] net: ethtool: mm: Increase FPE verification retry count

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Tue Jun 9 17:17:50 PDT 2026


On Thu,  4 Jun 2026 19:56:31 -0700
muhammad.nazim.amirul.nazle.asmade at altera.com wrote:
> The current FPE verification retry count is set to 3. However,
> the IEEE 802.3br standard does not specify a fixed value for this.
> A retry count of 3 may be insufficient when the remote device is
> slow to respond during link-up. Increase the retry count to 20 to
> improve robustness.

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