commit baac03d9bb7b8aa3c33a2dbf5f459ea6ce8abaf4
author Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com> Mon Sep 22 10:03:56 2008 -0700
committer Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Wed Sep 24 20:48:56 2008 -0400
tree 018e47dc43acfff4a63d3974c981340ba729cac2
parent 2e2e8d53c3f34684af7a7475098b7524a6b854c2

gianfar: Fix error in mdio reset timeout

The loop with the timeout used "while (...  && timeout--)", which means
than when the timeout occurs, "timeout" will be -1 after the loop has
exited.  The code that checks if the looped exited because of a timeout
used "if (timeout <= 0)".  Seems ok, except timeout is unsigned, and
(unsigned)-1 isn't less than zero!

Using "--timeout" in the loop fixes this problem, as now "timeout" will be
0 when the loop times out.

This also fixes a bug in the existing code, where it will erroneously think
a timeout occurred if the condition the loop was waiting for is satisfied
on the final iteration before a timeout.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c
index ebcfb27..906aba2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c
@@ -136,12 +136,12 @@
 
 	/* Wait until the bus is free */
 	while ((gfar_read(&regs->miimind) & MIIMIND_BUSY) &&
-			timeout--)
+			--timeout)
 		cpu_relax();
 
 	mutex_unlock(&bus->mdio_lock);
 
-	if(timeout <= 0) {
+	if(timeout == 0) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: The MII Bus is stuck!\n",
 				bus->name);
 		return -EBUSY;