From: Shannon Nelson <redacted>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:19:54 -0700

Our link watchdog displayed a couple of unfriendly behaviors in some recent
stress testing.  These patches change the startup and stop timing in order
to be sure that expected structures are ready to be used by the watchdog.

This doesn't apply cleanly, almost certainly because of conflicts with
Thomas Gleixner's patch series.

Always do a quick update of your net-next tree before submitting patches
to avoid this problem in the future.

Thank you.