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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Regression in net-2.6.24?
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:00:31 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:50:59 -0700

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:40:26 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:31:49 -0700
> > 
> > > You don't need to re-read the status register and process the PHY irq's inside loop.
> > > Try this:
> > 
> > Are you sure?  What if a PHY interrupt comes in during the loop?
> 
> The interrupt is level triggered, and will rearm.

Fair enough.