netdev - [patch -mainline] sfc: fix a timeout loop

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:06:08 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Shradha Shah <sshah@...arflare.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch -mainline] sfc: fix a timeout loop

We test for if "tries" is zero at the end but "tries--" is a post-op so
it will end with "tries" set to -1.  I have changed it to a pre-op
instead.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/txc43128_phy.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/txc43128_phy.c
index 3d5ee32..194f67d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/txc43128_phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/txc43128_phy.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static void txc_reset_logic_mmd(struct efx_nic *efx, int mmd)
 
 	val |= (1 << TXC_GLCMD_LMTSWRST_LBN);
 	efx_mdio_write(efx, mmd, TXC_GLRGS_GLCMD, val);
-	while (tries--) {
+	while (--tries) {
 		val = efx_mdio_read(efx, mmd, TXC_GLRGS_GLCMD);
 		if (!(val & (1 << TXC_GLCMD_LMTSWRST_LBN)))
 			break;
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