RE: [PATCH] net: memac_phy: add a timeout to MDIO operations

2020-12-09 Thread Madalin Bucur (OSS)
> -Original Message- > From: Ioana Ciornei > Sent: 09 December 2020 13:32 > To: joe.hershber...@ni.com; Tom Rini ; u- > b...@lists.denx.de > Cc: Madalin Bucur ; Florin Laurentiu Chiculita > ; Ioana Ciornei > Subject: [PATCH] net: memac_phy: add a timeout to MDIO

[PATCH] net: memac_phy: add a timeout to MDIO operations

2020-12-09 Thread Ioana Ciornei
We have encountered circumstances when a board design does not include pull-up resistors on the external MDIO buses which are not used. This leads to the MDIO data line not being pulled-up, thus the MDIO controller will always see the line as busy. Without a timeout in the MDIO bus driver, the exe