Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: spacemit: Clarify stat timeout comments and messages

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:04:39 -0800

On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:17:18 +0800 Vivian Wang wrote:
> This patch isn't a fix for the problem per se, since it is hardware
> behavior. The new message and comments, however, should direct those
> running into this on new hardware towards a fix.

Is it not possible to improve the situation?
Is the refclock disappearing because of power saving?
Or because the link is down?
Because if it's the latter we should be able to skip reading the stats
when link is down (still racy but better than waiting in cases we can
detect?)