netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/enc28j60: low power mode

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Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:31:16 -0800
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Cc:	Claudio Lanconelli <lanconelli.claudio@...ar.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/enc28j60: low power mode

On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Claudio Lanconelli wrote:
> > Keep enc28j60 chips in low-power mode when they're not in use.
> > At typically 120 mA, these chips run hot even when idle; this
> > low power mode cuts that power usage by a factor of around 100.
> > 
> > This version provides a generic routine to poll a register until
> > its masked value equals some value ...
> 
> It's a bit silly to create a variable just to store the result of 
> msecs_to_jiffies(constant)

Sillier to replace a compile-time constant with a runtime function
call!  The msecs_to_jiffies() implementation doesn't optimize the
case of a constant parameter -- there's no inlined version.




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