[U-Boot] [PATCH] tsec: Wait for auto-negotiation to complete without link

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Feb 4 22:26:32 CET 2009


Dear Andy Fleming,

In message <2acbd3e40902041320l3bce93c1p989c4c33ca8e7ae at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Hmmm....I made that change for a reason.  Waiting for autonegotiation
> to finish on a tsec with no link was quite tiresome.  If you've hooked
> up the 4th tsec, and try to boot, you end up waiting for *three* tsecs
> to timeout.  If dhcp fails because the link isn't up you can always
> try again, or add a delay before dhcp starts so that the link is up.

Why that? Don't you always enable only the interface you are trying to
use?

That would be a bug that needs to be fixed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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