-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dale Farnsworth wrote: > > You have replaced the use of the global PHY spinlock with a per-port spinlock. > However, the SMI register is shared by all ports. The global lock is > needed to prevent simultaneous updates of the register by drivers for > multiple ports. > > NAK > Are you sure? Notice that a majority of the spinlocks were changed to disable IRQs. Secondly, the lowest level mv_read/mv_write functions have to acquire the big mv64x60_lock before they can read or write registers. I see the PHY spinlock as being an additional and unnecessary lock to contend with. Am I make an improper assumption?
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