From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/5] e1000e: increase swflag acquisition timeout for ICHx/PCH Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20091026.161710.257835809.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20091026212242.9682.25442.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20091026212306.9682.73519.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, bruce.w.allan@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49851 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754621AbZJZXQr (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:16:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091026212306.9682.73519.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:23:06 -0700 > From: Bruce Allan > > In some conditions (e.g. when AMT is enabled on the system), it is possible > to take an extended period of time to for the driver to acquire the sw/fw/hw > hardware semaphore used to protect against concurrent access of a shared > resource (e.g. PHY registers). This could cause PHY registers to not get > configured properly resulting in link issues. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.