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Message-Id: <20110616.231018.84570655636629416.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:10:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: shemminger@...tta.com
Cc: gthelen@...gle.com, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: avoid using uninitialized variable
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:02:30 -0400
> In my experience if phy reads once successfully, it is going
> to read every time. If there is a problem it only happens on
> the first access (powered off, bad timing, etc).
It also happens when the PHY can't get a response for a certain
register, for whatever reason, before internal hw timeouts trigger.
Please, check all MII accesses. That's what I do in every driver
I've written.
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