From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:09:07 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 5/5] usbeth: asix: Do a fast init if link already established In-Reply-To: <1307718251-15947-6-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> References: <1307718251-15947-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <1307718251-15947-6-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> Message-ID: <201106101609.09635.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20110610/99ce6ab4/attachment.pgp