On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 07:06 +0200, Markus Brunner wrote: > On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Somebody knows off hand what the standard says the timeout should be ? > > Anyone? > > I didn't find any documentation on the standard, but I had a look at other > drivers. > au1000_eth.c waits 20 ms (20 * 1ms) in mdio_read. > bfin_mac.c waits 500 * 1us in mdio_poll. > In both functions the last delay before the timeout is useless, like in > new_emac. Not nice, but timeouts shouldn't occur anyway. > > new emac probably doesn't wait long enough, but 20ms seems to be a bit too > long.
I just send Jeff a patch doubling the timeouts. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
