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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 5/5] usbeth: asix: Do a fast init if link already established
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:09:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106101609.09635.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307718251-15947-6-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org>

On Friday, June 10, 2011 11:04:11 Simon Glass wrote:
> The Asix driver takes the link down during init() and then brings it back
> up. This commit changes this so that if a link has already been
> established successfully we simply check that the link is still good.
> 
> This reduces the delay between successive network commands.

i'm not sure about this.  i think this is a general issue to all net devices 
and should be resolved there rather than making diff net drivers behave 
differently based on how the maintainer felt like going.

i also vaguely recall there being discussions on this topic recently.
-mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-10 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-10 15:04 [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 0/5] Add SMSC95XX support including MAC address control Simon Glass
2011-06-10 15:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 1/5] Add support for SMSC95XX USB 2.0 10/100MBit Ethernet Adapter Simon Glass
2011-06-10 22:09   ` Eric Bénard
2011-06-10 22:26     ` Simon Glass
2011-06-10 22:54       ` Eric Bénard
2011-06-10 15:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 2/5] Add Ethernet hardware MAC address framework to usbnet Simon Glass
2011-06-10 15:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 3/5] Add documentation for USB Host Networking Simon Glass
2011-06-10 15:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 4/5] Put common autoload code into auto_load() function Simon Glass
2011-06-10 21:53   ` Eric Bénard
2011-06-10 22:32     ` Simon Glass
2011-06-10 15:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 5/5] usbeth: asix: Do a fast init if link already established Simon Glass
2011-06-10 20:09   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2011-06-10 22:22     ` Simon Glass
2011-06-11 22:17       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-12  0:01         ` Simon Glass
2011-06-10 22:25 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 0/5] Add SMSC95XX support including MAC address control Eric Bénard

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