[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 RESEND 5/5] usbeth: asix: Do a fast init if link already established

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday, June 10, 2011 11:04:11 Simon Glass wrote:
> The Asix driver takes the link down during init() and then brings it back
> up. This commit changes this so that if a link has already been
> established successfully we simply check that the link is still good.
> 
> This reduces the delay between successive network commands.

i'm not sure about this.  i think this is a general issue to all net devices 
and should be resolved there rather than making diff net drivers behave 
differently based on how the maintainer felt like going.

i also vaguely recall there being discussions on this topic recently.
-mike
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