netdev - Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts

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Message-Id: <20080425165703.864e63bd.billfink@mindspring.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:57:03 -0400
From:	Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	<jgarzik@...ox.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>, <super.firetwister@...glemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> This patch doubles the MDIO timeouts in EMAC as there are field
> cases where they are two short to communicate with some PHYs.

I guess them being "two short" is why they needed to be doubled.  :-)

						-Bill
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