From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: super.firetwister@googlemail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
jgarzik@pobox.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:57:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080425165703.864e63bd.billfink@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080423051832.63BF7DDF65@ozlabs.org>
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. :-)
-Bill
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From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: <jgarzik@pobox.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, <super.firetwister@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:57:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080425165703.864e63bd.billfink@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080423051832.63BF7DDF65@ozlabs.org>
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. :-)
-Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-25 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 5:17 [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-23 5:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-25 6:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-25 6:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-25 20:57 ` Bill Fink [this message]
2008-04-25 20:57 ` Bill Fink
2008-04-25 22:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-25 22:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-25 23:58 ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-25 23:58 ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-26 3:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-26 3:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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