[PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Apr 26 08:22:38 EST 2008
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 16:57 -0400, Bill Fink wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > This patch doubles the MDIO timeouts in EMAC as there are field
> > cases where they are two short to communicate with some PHYs.
>
> I guess them being "two short" is why they needed to be doubled. :-)
Well, in that case, it makes sense, it's still pretty short and better
safe than sorry. On day I may look at actually measuring PHYs and see if
it's worth trying to do sleeping waits in there.
Ben.
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