Missed that "break". Here is the corrected patch. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:13:41 -0500 Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > > >>This patch fixes a long boot delay in the forcedeth driver. During >>initialization, the timeout for the handshake between mgmt unit and >>driver can be very long. The patch reduces the timeout by eliminating a >>extra loop around the timeout logic. >> >>Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla >> >> >> >>[patch-forcedeth-sema-fix text/plain (1.3KB)] >>--- old/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2007-11-08 17:33:00.000000000 -0500 >>+++ new/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2007-11-08 17:34:25.000000000 -0500 >>@@ -5286,20 +5286,17 @@ >> if (readl(base + NvRegTransmitterControl) & NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_PHY_INIT) { >> np->mac_in_use = readl(base + NvRegTransmitterControl) & NVREG_XMITCTL_MGMT_ST; >> dprintk(KERN_INFO "%s: mgmt unit is running. mac in use %x.\n", pci_name(pci_dev), np->mac_in_use); >>- for (i = 0; i < 5000; i++) { >>- msleep(1); >>- if (nv_mgmt_acquire_sema(dev)) { >>- /* management unit setup the phy already? */ >>- if ((readl(base + NvRegTransmitterControl) & NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_MASK) == >>- NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_PHY_INIT) { >>- /* phy is inited by mgmt unit */ >>- phyinitialized = 1; >>- dprintk(KERN_INFO "%s: Phy already initialized by mgmt unit.\n", pci_name(pci_dev)); >>- } else { >>- /* we need to init the phy */ >>- } >>- break; >>+ if (nv_mgmt_acquire_sema(dev)) { >>+ /* management unit setup the phy already? */ >>+ if ((readl(base + NvRegTransmitterControl) & NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_MASK) == >>+ NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_PHY_INIT) { >>+ /* phy is inited by mgmt unit */ >>+ phyinitialized = 1; >>+ dprintk(KERN_INFO "%s: Phy already initialized by mgmt unit.\n", pci_name(pci_dev)); >>+ } else { >>+ /* we need to init the phy */ >> } >>+ break; >> } >> } >> } > > > drivers/net/forcedeth.c: In function 'nv_probe': > drivers/net/forcedeth.c:5307: error: break statement not within loop or switch