From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 4: 7:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wemm.org (12-232-135-171.client.attbi.com [12.232.135.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBCF37B416; Wed, 1 May 2002 04:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g41B7r400769; Wed, 1 May 2002 04:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929EC38CC; Wed, 1 May 2002 04:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PHY patch, please test. In-Reply-To: <61585.1020246337@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 04:07:53 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020501110753.929EC38CC@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > This patch simplifies the auto-negotiation in the MII/PHY code, but > I don't have enough weird ethernet cards to test it out. > > Please test and if it doesn't work send me dmesg -v output and info > on what netcard it breaks. > > http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/phy00.patch > > I hope to commit it this weekend. So, in a nutshell, you removed the ability for the card driver to request the phy driver to wait for negotiation to complete, and removed the interlock that prevents duplicate negotiation requests when the negotiation took longer than the allotted time? Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message