[PATCH] fec: use interrupt for MDIO completion indication

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Mon Jul 12 23:36:11 EDT 2010


From: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:12:51 +0300

> With the move to phylib (commit e6b043d) I was seeing sporadic "MDIO write
> timeout" messages. Measure of the actual time spent showed latency times of
> more than 1600us.
> 
> This patch uses the MII event indication of the FEC hardware to detect
> completion of MDIO transactions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>

Applied.



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