Re: why this 1ms delay in mdio_read? (cont'd from "are ioctl calls supposed to take this long?")

[Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>]

"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Chris Friesen wrote:

> >       mdelay(1); /* One ms delay... */
> >
> >       ...rest of code...
> >
> 
> What? What kernel version?
> The code here says:
>      /* Establish sync by sending at least 32 logic ones */
>      for (i = 32; i >=0; i--) {..........}

I had assumed that it was part of the normal drivers, but now after digging into
it some more it appears to have been added as part of a patch from Motorola for
a compact PCI board.  I can't see why they would have done this but I'm trying
to track it down now.

Thanks for all your help,

Chris



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