netdev - Re: make bnx2.c use msleep()

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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:07:49 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mchan@...adcom.com,
	arjan@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make bnx2.c use msleep()

Em Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:39:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig escreveu:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:32:50PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
> > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:21:30 -0700
> > 
> > > This is a special case since we are resetting the chip.  A read right
> > > after chip reset will hang the bus especially for A0 and A1 and that's
> > > why we need the msleep().  TG3 also has the same problem with chip
> > > reset.  The code that comes after the msleep() will read and poll for
> > > the reset to complete.
> > 
> > That's right, I forgot about this issue.
> > 
> > Thanks for explaining Michael.
> 
> The explanation should probably be added to the driver in form of
> a comment..

I was about to say that...

- Arnaldo
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