netdev - Re: [PATCH] gianfar: Omit TBI auto-negotiation based on device tree

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Message-Id: <5F0C4A97-EA35-4235-9457-FC44D4906E2D@freescale.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:38:15 -0600
From:	Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@...escale.com>
To:	Nate Case <ncase@...-inc.com>
Cc:	Trent Piepho <tpiepho@...escale.com>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gianfar: Omit TBI auto-negotiation based on device tree


On Nov 3, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Nate Case wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:07 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
>> But more relevant to your serdes problem, I also have a patch that
>> prevents
>> restarting serdes auto-negotiation if the serdes link is already up.
>> My SGMII
>> PHY will auto-negotiate, but it takes about 3 seconds.  Avoiding an
>> unnecessary 3 second auto-negotiation when the gianfar device is
>> opened lets
>> me cut my power-on to DHCP completion time in half.
>>
>> I wonder if this would also fix your problem, without needing to add
>> the extra
>> workaround?
>
> I just verified that your patch solves my problem without the need for
> my workaround.  So at this point, it looks like we can drop this patch
> ("Omit TBI auto-negotiation based on device tree").
>
> I tested when booting the kernel in U-Boot both via both TFTP and  
> flash
> (I was worried that your patch may only fix things for the TFTP boot
> case, but that wasn't the case fortunately).
>
> Thanks for the patch!

Ok, marked Nate's patch as superseded in patchworks.

- k
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