Subject: Re: [TG3]: Increase 5906 firmware poll time.

From: "Michael Chan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:05:50 -0800

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 18:05 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 
> ACK, of course, but this brings up something else:  what's the status of 
> moving chip reset outside of a spinlock?
> 
> Currently a reset during operation can trigger the CPU lockup detector 
> and other doo-dads, because you can easily spend a second or two with a 
> spinlock held (a loooooong time, to hold a spinlock)
> 

Yeah, I will put this in my queue.  I have done some of that in the PHY
routines and will continue to do more, as those are even worse.