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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:14:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	steve.glendinning@...c.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, roel.kluin@...il.com,
	juha_motorsportcom@...kku.com, ian.saturley@...c.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] smsc911x: improve EEPROM loading timeout logic in
 open

From: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...c.com>
Date: Wed,  4 Mar 2009 17:33:25 +0000

> This patch from Juha Leppanen suppresses a false warning if the eeprom
> load succeeds on the very last attempt.
> 
> Juha> In function smsc911x_open smsc911x_reg_read+udelay can be run 50
> Juha> times with timeout reaching -1, and the following if statetement
> Juha> does not catch the timeout and no warning is issued. Also if the
> Juha> 50th smsc911x_reg_read is GOOD, loop is exited with timeout as 0
> Juha> and bogus warning issued.  Replace testing order and --timeout
> Juha> instead of timeout-- and now max 50 smsc911x_reg_read's are done,
> Juha> with max 49 udelays.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...c.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6
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