From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: via_rhine modules error on 2.6.16 with mii-tool Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:36:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20060413213634.GA6769@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20060327203946.GA11824@k3.hellgate.ch> <20060413182638.GC25854@tuxdriver.com> <20060413114018.65fba555@localhost.localdomain> <20060413204731.GB2874@k3.hellgate.ch> <20060413140252.1c22b078@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Roger Luethi , "John W. Linville" , Marco Berizzi , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:57323 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964978AbWDMVha (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:37:30 -0400 To: Stephen Hemminger Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060413140252.1c22b078@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger : [...] > The other drivers should be fixed as well. Phy access with irq's disabled > is not good. The hardware I checked takes 100's of usecs to do one read > transaction. Yep, 802.3 allows it. :o| It's surprizing that the low latency squadron has not complained so far from our bad habit of spinlocked, irq disabled, MII access. -- Ueimor