[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: tsec - handle user interrupt while waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete

[Scott Wood]

Andy Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at freescale.com>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 <kim.phillips at freescale.com>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming at freescale.com>
> 
> 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