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From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts
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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