netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mscc: Register poll timeout should be wall time not attempts

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Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:40:30 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     steen.hegelund@...rochip.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mscc: Register poll timeout should be wall
 time not attempts

From: Steen Hegelund <steen.hegelund@...rochip.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:16:31 +0100

> When doing indirect access in the Ocelot chip, a command is setup,
> issued and then we need to poll until the result is ready. The polling
> timeout is specified in milliseconds in the datasheet and not in
> register access attempts.
> It is not a bug on the currently supported platform, but we observed
> that the code does not work properly on other platforms that we want to
> support as the timing requirements there are different.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steen Hegelund <steen.hegelund@...rochip.com>

Applied with subsystem prefix adjusted as per Florian's feedback.