From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] netdev: bfin_mac: handle timeouts with the MDIO registers gracefully Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 17:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100517.172206.179930115.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1273505954-32588-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <1273505954-32588-8-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org To: vapier@gentoo.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43062 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755919Ab0ERAV6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 20:21:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1273505954-32588-8-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Mike Frysinger Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 11:39:13 -0400 > Have the low level MDIO functions pass back up timeout information so we > don't waste time polling them multiple times when there is a problem, and > so we don't let higher layers think the device is available when it isn't. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger Applied.