Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts

2008-04-25 Thread Bill Fink
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: This patch doubles the MDIO timeouts in EMAC as there are field cases where they are two short to communicate with some PHYs. I guess them being two short is why they needed to be doubled. :-)

Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts

2008-04-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 16:57 -0400, Bill Fink wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: This patch doubles the MDIO timeouts in EMAC as there are field cases where they are two short to communicate with some PHYs. I guess them being two short is why they needed to be

Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts

2008-04-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 18:58 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: I guess them being two short is why they needed to be doubled. :-) Well, in that case, it makes sense, it's still pretty short and better safe than sorry. On day I may look at actually measuring PHYs and see if it's worth trying

[PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts

2008-04-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch doubles the MDIO timeouts in EMAC as there are field cases where they are two short to communicate with some PHYs. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c |8 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) ---