[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: Use 0.5 sec timeout in miiphy_reset() instead of counting loop

Ben Warren biggerbadderben at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 08:06:03 CET 2010


Stefan,

On 2/2/2010 4:43 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> This patch fixes a problem I've notived on a buggy PPC4xx system. This
> system has problems with the PHY MDIO communication and seemed to be
> stuck/crashed in miiphy_reset(). But degugging revealed, that the CPU
> didn't crash, but "only" hung in this counting loop for about 2 minutes.
>
> This patch now uses a real timeout of 0.5 seconds (as mentioned in the
> comment in miiphy_reset).
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese<sr at denx.de>
> Cc: Ben Warren<biggerbadderben at gmail.com>
> ---
>   common/miiphyutil.c |   12 ++++++------
>   1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>    
Applied to net repo.

thanks,
Ben


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