Re: [PATCH 1/2] netdev/fec: fix performance impact from mdio polloperation

[David Miller]

From: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri,  7 May 2010 10:27:18 +0800

> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546649
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/457878
> 
> After introducing phylib supporting, users experienced performace drop. That is
> because of the mdio polling operation of phylib. Use msleep to replace the busy
> waiting cpu_relax() and remove the warning message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

As you've already been told, making these MDIO interfaces fail silently
is not acceptable.

Please fix this bug properly and resubmit this patch series.

Thanks.
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