From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:10:15 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] net: tsec - handle user interrupt while waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete In-Reply-To: <2acbd3e40908241548m1ff3543eu76bfb5d872f9c1fe@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090824143226.e563ae9e.kim.phillips@freescale.com> <2acbd3e40908241548m1ff3543eu76bfb5d872f9c1fe@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4A931DD7.8080104@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Andy Fleming wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Kim Phillips wrote: > >> if you don't have firmware installed for the PHY to come to life, this >> wait can be painful - let's give the option to avoid it if we want. >> >> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips > > > Acked-by: Andy Fleming > > I've always wanted this change, but never looked into how to implement it. > > However, it should be noted that this change is somewhat lessened in impact > by the proposal to change the timeout to be only 2 seconds, instead of > ...whatever it is now. I thought it was established that that wasn't long enough for some configurations? > But even with 2 seconds, it's annoying to wait for N ports to be tried when > you know none of them are hooked up. Or that you forgot to properly set the > ipaddr, anyway. ethrotate is annoying in general... -Scott