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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/8] forcedeth boot delay fix
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:00:09 -0500
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akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
> 
> Fix 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.
> 
> Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9308
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Alex Howells <astinus@gentoo.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

applied #upstream-fixes