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Re: [PATCH] wl1251: read default MAC address from EEPROM when available

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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Some wl1251 hardware configurations (like in WG7210 module) have
>> EEPROM attached where NVS data is kept, which includes MAC address.
>>
>> In such configurations, let's read default MAC address from EEPROM,
>> instead of using random one.
>
> This also looks good, just one comment:
>
>> +static int wl1251_read_eeprom_byte(struct wl1251 *wl, off_t offset, u8 *data)
>> +{
>> +     unsigned long timeout;
>> +
>> +     wl1251_reg_write32(wl, EE_ADDR, offset);
>> +     wl1251_reg_write32(wl, EE_CTL, EE_CTL_READ);
>> +
>> +     /* EE_CTL_READ clears when data is ready */
>> +     timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(100);
>> +     while (1) {
>> +             if (!(wl1251_reg_read32(wl, EE_CTL) & EE_CTL_READ))
>> +                     break;
>> +
>> +             if (time_after(jiffies, timeout))
>> +                     return -ETIMEDOUT;
>> +
>> +             udelay(200);
>> +     }
>
> Is the udelay() really needed here? In my opinion msleep(), for
> example with a value of 5 ms, would be nicer from system point of
> view. It doesn't matter if this function takes few milliseconds
> longer, because this is called only in op_start(). What do you think?

It normally takes something like 700-1000us, so I guess I can replace
with msleep(1) if you think it's better.
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