forcedeth boot delay fix
authorAyaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:02:58 +0000 (15:02 -0800)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:59:59 +0000 (20:59 -0500)
Fix a long boot delay in the forcedeth driver.  During initialization, the
timeout for the handshake between mgmt unit and driver can be very long.
The patch reduces the timeout by eliminating a extra loop around the
timeout logic.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9308

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alex Howells <astinus@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
drivers/net/forcedeth.c

index f9ba0ac..a96583c 100644 (file)
@@ -5286,19 +5286,15 @@ static int __devinit nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_i
                if (readl(base + NvRegTransmitterControl) & NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_PHY_INIT) {
                        np->mac_in_use = readl(base + NvRegTransmitterControl) & NVREG_XMITCTL_MGMT_ST;
                        dprintk(KERN_INFO "%s: mgmt unit is running. mac in use %x.\n", pci_name(pci_dev), np->mac_in_use);
-                       for (i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
-                               msleep(1);
-                               if (nv_mgmt_acquire_sema(dev)) {
-                                       /* management unit setup the phy already? */
-                                       if ((readl(base + NvRegTransmitterControl) & NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_MASK) ==
-                                           NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_PHY_INIT) {
-                                               /* phy is inited by mgmt unit */
-                                               phyinitialized = 1;
-                                               dprintk(KERN_INFO "%s: Phy already initialized by mgmt unit.\n", pci_name(pci_dev));
-                                       } else {
-                                               /* we need to init the phy */
-                                       }
-                                       break;
+                       if (nv_mgmt_acquire_sema(dev)) {
+                               /* management unit setup the phy already? */
+                               if ((readl(base + NvRegTransmitterControl) & NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_MASK) ==
+                                   NVREG_XMITCTL_SYNC_PHY_INIT) {
+                                       /* phy is inited by mgmt unit */
+                                       phyinitialized = 1;
+                                       dprintk(KERN_INFO "%s: Phy already initialized by mgmt unit.\n", pci_name(pci_dev));
+                               } else {
+                                       /* we need to init the phy */
                                }
                        }
                }