The phy read and write routines call udelay() with the board lock held, and with the posibility of IRQs being disabled. Since these delays can be up to 500usec, and are only required as we have to save the chip's address register. To improve the behaviour, hold the lock whilst we are writing and then restore the state before the delay and then repeat the process once the delay has happened. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks Index: linux-2.6.24-quilt3/drivers/net/dm9000.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.24-quilt3.orig/drivers/net/dm9000.c +++ linux-2.6.24-quilt3/drivers/net/dm9000.c @@ -1130,7 +1130,15 @@ dm9000_phy_read(struct net_device *dev, iow(db, DM9000_EPAR, DM9000_PHY | reg); iow(db, DM9000_EPCR, 0xc); /* Issue phyxcer read command */ + + writeb(reg_save, db->io_addr); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock,flags); + udelay(100); /* Wait read complete */ + + spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock,flags); + reg_save = readb(db->io_addr); + iow(db, DM9000_EPCR, 0x0); /* Clear phyxcer read command */ /* The read data keeps on REG_0D & REG_0E */ @@ -1138,7 +1146,6 @@ dm9000_phy_read(struct net_device *dev, /* restore the previous address */ writeb(reg_save, db->io_addr); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock,flags); return ret; @@ -1167,7 +1174,15 @@ dm9000_phy_write(struct net_device *dev, iow(db, DM9000_EPDRH, ((value >> 8) & 0xff)); iow(db, DM9000_EPCR, 0xa); /* Issue phyxcer write command */ + + writeb(reg_save, db->io_addr); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock,flags); + udelay(500); /* Wait write complete */ + + spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock,flags); + reg_save = readb(db->io_addr); + iow(db, DM9000_EPCR, 0x0); /* Clear phyxcer write command */ /* restore the previous address */ -- Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html