[PATCH] gianfar: Omit TBI auto-negotiation based on device tree

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 3, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Nate Case wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:07 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
>> But more relevant to your serdes problem, I also have a patch that
>> prevents
>> restarting serdes auto-negotiation if the serdes link is already up.
>> My SGMII
>> PHY will auto-negotiate, but it takes about 3 seconds.  Avoiding an
>> unnecessary 3 second auto-negotiation when the gianfar device is
>> opened lets
>> me cut my power-on to DHCP completion time in half.
>>
>> I wonder if this would also fix your problem, without needing to add
>> the extra
>> workaround?
>
> I just verified that your patch solves my problem without the need for
> my workaround.  So at this point, it looks like we can drop this patch
> ("Omit TBI auto-negotiation based on device tree").
>
> I tested when booting the kernel in U-Boot both via both TFTP and  
> flash
> (I was worried that your patch may only fix things for the TFTP boot
> case, but that wasn't the case fortunately).
>
> Thanks for the patch!

Ok, marked Nate's patch as superseded in patchworks.

- k