kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!

Hello,

I'm seeing the message periodically:

Nov  8 09:52:59 kgate last message repeated 5 times
Nov  8 11:26:54 kgate kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
Nov  8 11:56:12 kgate kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
Nov  8 14:38:45 kgate kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
Nov  8 14:38:47 kgate last message repeated 3 times
Nov  8 14:56:11 kgate kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
Nov  8 14:57:01 kgate last message repeated 10 times
Nov  8 21:32:15 kgate kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
Nov  8 22:57:46 kgate kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!

The source contains:

/* How to wait for the command unit to accept a command.
Typically this takes 0 ticks. */
static inline void wait_for_cmd_done(long cmd_ioaddr)

{
        int wait = 1000;
        do   ;
        while(inb(cmd_ioaddr) && --wait >= 0);

#ifndef final_version
if (wait < 0)
printk(KERN_ALERT "eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done
timeout!\n");
#endif
}

My machine is a HP Netserver LD Pro with a 200MHz Pentium Pro. I guess a fast machine will only allow a very short time for the above loop. Shouldn't it be fixed?

The hardware is this:
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet Pro 10/100TX
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 9 Memory at fe8fe000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
I/O ports at ece0
Memory at fea00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

kgate kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
kgate kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <[email protected]> and others
kgate kernel: eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:60:B0:6D:F1:AE, IRQ 9.
kgate kernel: Board assembly 673610-001, Physical connectors present:
RJ45

kgate kernel:   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
kgate kernel:   General self-test: passed.
kgate kernel:   Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
kgate kernel:   Internal registers self-test: passed.
kgate kernel:   ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x49caa8d6).
kgate kernel:   Receiver lock-up workaround activated.

The software is Linux-2.2.16 (SuSE 7.0).

Regards,
Ulrich

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