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| author | Tommy Christensen | 2005-11-07 00:58:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2005-11-07 07:53:25 -0800 |
| commit | d9e46de34e4212f472684b1561ba323aac54ea25 (patch) | |
| tree | bf8392ea5f243cc5ddbd32c82dec144ba82d036b /drivers | |
| parent | 106427e65d2b6f3a519ab5d14a3586007e7e0f20 (diff) | |
[PATCH] 3c59x: avoid blindly reading link status twice
In order to spare some I/O operations, be more intelligent about when to
read from the PHY.
Pointed out by Bogdan Costescu.
Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/3c59x.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/3c59x.c b/drivers/net/3c59x.c index 88ce4c43fd4f..e1f773d07edb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/3c59x.c +++ b/drivers/net/3c59x.c @@ -1893,7 +1893,10 @@ vortex_timer(unsigned long data) { spin_lock_bh(&vp->lock); mii_status = mdio_read(dev, vp->phys[0], MII_BMSR); - mii_status = mdio_read(dev, vp->phys[0], MII_BMSR); + if (!(mii_status & BMSR_LSTATUS)) { + /* Re-read to get actual link status */ + mii_status = mdio_read(dev, vp->phys[0], MII_BMSR); + } ok = 1; if (vortex_debug > 2) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: MII transceiver has status %4.4x.\n", |