On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:58, Bogdan Costescu wrote: > Can the original poster give an explanation ? I've enjoyed a rather > well functioning 3c59x driver for the past ~6 years without such > double reading. Plus: > - this operation is I/O expensive > - it is performed inside a region protected by a spinlock > - it is performed often, every 60 seconds > > Is there some specific hardware that exhibits a problem that is solved > by this double reading ?
Nothing critical. The idea is to avoid an extra delay of 60 seconds before detecting link-up. Please see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5025 -Tommy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
