Re: 2.2.15 with eepro100: eth0: Too much work at interrupt

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 03:51:56 EST


Dragan Stancevic wrote:
> I think that inw there is just for timing purposes since the
> card/eeprom specification doesnt require anything else than a delay.

Think below card/eeprom level. If PCI writes follow the foo_delay()
macro call for example, then you can affect program operation by using a
udelay() call without first executing readX()

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