From: Paul Burton > Sent: 03 February 2016 12:03 > Resets of the EG20T MAC on the MIPS Boston development board take longer > than the 1000 loops that pch_gbe_wait_clr_bit was performing. Bump up > the number of loops. ... > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/oki- > semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c > index 00ef83c..87994d2 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c > @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static void pch_gbe_wait_clr_bit(void *reg, u32 bit) > u32 tmp; > > /* wait busy */ > - tmp = 1000; > + tmp = 10000; > while ((ioread32(reg) & bit) && --tmp) > cpu_relax(); > if (!tmp) Why not sleep for (say) 100us ? That'll stop the loop depending on the cpu speed. David