netdev - Re: [PATCH] [v2] net/fsl_pq_mdio: use spin_event_timeout() to poll the indicator register

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Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:15:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	timur@...escale.com
Cc:	afleming@...escale.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jan.ceuleers@...puter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] net/fsl_pq_mdio: use spin_event_timeout() to poll
 the indicator register

From: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:57:36 -0500

> Macro spin_event_timeout() was designed for simple polling of hardware
> registers with a timeout, so use it when we poll the MIIMIND register.
> This allows us to return an error code instead of polling indefinitely.
> 
> Note that PHY_INIT_TIMEOUT is a count of loop iterations, so we can't use
> it for spin_event_timeout(), which asks for microseconds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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