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From: Franco Fichtner <franco@marian.de>
To: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] qla3xxx: Give the PHY time to come out of reset.
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:56:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A41EA2B.20306@marian.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245783602-6542-1-git-send-email-ron.mercer@qlogic.com>

Ron Mercer wrote:
> +	/* Give the PHY time to come out of reset. */
> +	mdelay(100);
>   

Why *delay* for 100ms? This is something I pointed out quite a while ago 
when
you first introduced your driver.

Looking at the other patch where you eventually replaced the delay with 
a sleep
left the door wide open for a lock related issue. So I can see why the 
delay works
"better" for you.

However, I also recall pointing out the locking in this driver needed 
some work,
because there were spinlocks held over the duration of numerous function 
calls.
It seemed like a mess, but nobody cared.


Franco

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-24  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-23 19:00 [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] qla3xxx: Give the PHY time to come out of reset Ron Mercer
2009-06-23 19:00 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 2/2] qla3xxx: Don't sleep while holding lock Ron Mercer
2009-06-23 23:36   ` David Miller
2009-06-23 23:36 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] qla3xxx: Give the PHY time to come out of reset David Miller
2009-06-24  8:56 ` Franco Fichtner [this message]

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