was: FEC on MPC860T & race condition

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:39:05AM +0100, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Tom Rini schrieb:
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:16:25AM +0100, Steven Scholz wrote:
> >
> >>Dan Malek wrote:
> >>
> >>>Steven Scholz wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>You, Laurent, told us about a race condition.
> >>>>You, Dan, first claimed, it was already fix but mentioned later that
> >>>>the patch
> >>>>was somehow lost.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>IIRC, it was the usual problem of having it fixed in only one of the
> >>>two 2.4 trees.  I ensured both trees were made up to date.
> >>
> >>There is still no fix in linuxppc_2_4_devel!
> >
> >
> > Um, but there is in linuxppc_2_4 ?
> Is that a question or a statement?

A question.

> I just hab a look at arch/ppc/8xx_io/fec.c in the recent linuxppc_2_4 and
> could find this problem fixed! The MII irq is still requested very early
> without waiting for the PHY to discovered!

So linuxppc_2_4 has a partial fix then is what you're saying?  Around
what lines?  I'm interested to see why _devel doesn't have this.

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