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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] How can I make Xenomai share a mii bus with the
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To: Michael Galea <michaelgalea@domain.hid>
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Michael Galea wrote:
> /* Wait till MII management write is complete */
> while ((in_be32(&regs->miimind)) & MIIMIND_BUSY) cpu_relax();

This is no good. Putting this under spinlock may mean large masking
sections.

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					    Gilles.