Re: eepro100 (PCI ID 82820) lockups/failure

Colin Walters (walters@cis.ohio-state.edu)
Mon, 06 Aug 2001 14:39:14 -0400


Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> writes:

> Someone who experiences such timeouts needs to figure out how much
> time it really can take before a command is accepted. Some time ago
> the timeout was increased by the factor of 10, and now the current
> timeout looks being insufficient. It might be a problem with the
> time of specific commands or specific chip revisions. Or some
> hardware is too clever and somehow optimizes those repeated read
> operations, so that they no longer take a fixed number of bus
> cycles.

Shouldn't a udelay(1) always take one microsecond, regardless of
hardware optimizations?

> In short, that patch isn't a real solution. If someone provides me
> with the information which commands times-out and how much time they
> really need, we could have a real solution.

How can I help? Instrument the code by hand with printk statements?
Or is there a better way?
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