From d9e46de34e4212f472684b1561ba323aac54ea25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tommy Christensen Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:58:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] 3c59x: avoid blindly reading link status twice In order to spare some I/O operations, be more intelligent about when to read from the PHY. Pointed out by Bogdan Costescu. Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/net/3c59x.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/3c59x.c b/drivers/net/3c59x.c index 88ce4c43fd..e1f773d07e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/3c59x.c +++ b/drivers/net/3c59x.c @@ -1893,7 +1893,10 @@ vortex_timer(unsigned long data) { spin_lock_bh(&vp->lock); mii_status = mdio_read(dev, vp->phys[0], MII_BMSR); - mii_status = mdio_read(dev, vp->phys[0], MII_BMSR); + if (!(mii_status & BMSR_LSTATUS)) { + /* Re-read to get actual link status */ + mii_status = mdio_read(dev, vp->phys[0], MII_BMSR); + } ok = 1; if (vortex_debug > 2) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: MII transceiver has status %4.4x.\n", -- 2.39.5