10 Jun
2011
10 Jun
'11
10:09 p.m.
On Friday, June 10, 2011 11:04:11 Simon Glass wrote:
The Asix driver takes the link down during init() and then brings it back up. This commit changes this so that if a link has already been established successfully we simply check that the link is still good.
This reduces the delay between successive network commands.
i'm not sure about this. i think this is a general issue to all net devices and should be resolved there rather than making diff net drivers behave differently based on how the maintainer felt like going.
i also vaguely recall there being discussions on this topic recently. -mike