netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 next-next] drivers: net: davinci

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Message-Id: <20180510.172339.458302745153151907.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 10 May 2018 17:23:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nsekhar@...com
Cc:     grygorii.strashko@...com, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 next-next] drivers: net: davinci_mdio: prevent
 spurious timeout

From: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 21:15:15 +0530

> A well timed kernel preemption in the time_after() loop
> in wait_for_idle() can result in a spurious timeout
> error to be returned.
> 
> Fix it by using readl_poll_timeout() which takes care of
> this issue.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>

Applied.