Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout (2.4.19-pre2/8)

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Paul Jakma wrote:

> hi,
> 
> i have a problem with a Dell poweredge with onboard Intel eepro NICs.
> 
> The network card basically doesnt work. The system logs are filled 
> with:
[SNIPPED...]

> looking at the code concerned:
> 
> static inline void wait_for_cmd_done(long cmd_ioaddr)
> {
>         int wait = 1000;
>         do  udelay(1) ;
>         while(inb(cmd_ioaddr) && --wait >= 0);
> #ifndef final_version
>         if (wait < 0)
>                 printk(KERN_ALERT "eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!\n");
> #endif
> }
> 

This procedure is called from numerous places in the code.
In line 1069 of eepro100.c, comment out the call to wait_for_cmd_done().
See if this fixes it. If it does, look in the header and send a patch
to the current maintainer. FYI, I use this driver with no problems
on 2.4.18 -- but I have commented-out that call because there, in fact,
might be no command to wait for and I got spurious messages.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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