netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 13/15] igb: add code to retry a phy read in the event of failure on link check

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Message-Id: <20091006.152154.14398379.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:21:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 13/15] igb: add code to retry a phy read
 in the event of failure on link check

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:35:23 -0700

> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> 
> This patch adds a retry to phy reads in the event of failure.  The original
> code broke out of the loop on failure and this is a mistake as we should be
> trying to do the read twice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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