On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org wrote:
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
Hi Mike,
OK perhaps my understanding is incorrect.
I saw discussion about the SMSC driver and whether half should do something there. I changed it to stop packet reception.
In my view it is correct for it to stop packet reception but keep the link up. Bringing the link down and up takes a few seconds, which adds delay between bootp and tftp. We don't want that.
Regards, Simon