Re: why this 1ms delay in mdio_read? (cont'd from "are ioctl calls supposed to take this long?")

From: Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 14:35:42 EST

"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Chris Friesen wrote:

> > mdelay(1); /* One ms delay... */
> >
> > ...rest of code...
> >
>
> What? What kernel version?
> The code here says:
> /* Establish sync by sending at least 32 logic ones */
> for (i = 32; i >=0; i--) {..........}

I had assumed that it was part of the normal drivers, but now after digging into
it some more it appears to have been added as part of a patch from Motorola for
a compact PCI board. I can't see why they would have done this but I'm trying
to track it down now.

Thanks for all your help,

Chris 

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