[PATCH] Freescale Ethernet combined driver

Pantelis Antoniou panto at intracom.gr
Thu May 12 20:43:38 EST 2005


Jaap-Jan Boor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> May be a little late (I'm trying to catch up on all mailing list mail)
> but I was wondering if the io port handling functions I see now in these 
> patches
> should not be 'atomic'. So toggling MII pins does not interfere with 
> toggling
> e.g. I2C bit-bang interface pins when those pins happen to be on the same
> port (A/B/C/D/E).
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Jaap-Jan
> 
> 
> 

Jaap-Jan

All mii operations are done under a spinlock with interrupts disabled.

Regards

Pantelis




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