From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: super.firetwister@googlemail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>,
jgarzik@pobox.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:58:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080425185842.7ab463e7@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209162158.5420.35.camel@pasglop>
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:22:38 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 16:57 -0400, Bill Fink wrote:
> > 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. :-)
>
> Well, in that case, it makes sense, it's still pretty short and better
> safe than sorry. On day I may look at actually measuring PHYs and see if
> it's worth trying to do sleeping waits in there.
I think you missed Bill's joke. Read your original email and spot the
typo, then read Bill's pun.
And stop emailing before you eat breakfast ;)
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-26 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 5:17 [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-25 6:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-25 20:57 ` Bill Fink
2008-04-25 22:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-25 23:58 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-04-26 3:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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