From: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] mii_phy.h
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:19:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E573AEE.2060406@monstr.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201108251020.50450.vapier@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday, August 25, 2011 03:25:32 Michal Simek wrote:
>> Can someone clear me purpose of mii_phy.h? It looks like that it is really
>> ancient file which hasn't been touched from 2003.
>>
>> It is use for two files
>> [monstr at monstr u-boot]$ grep -rn "mii_phy.h" *
>> board/ep8260/mii_phy.c:2:#include <mii_phy.h>
>> board/rpxsuper/mii_phy.c:2:#include <mii_phy.h>
>
> yes, if you look at old files, you often see people using generic names when
> they should have been driver or arch specific, or people who thought about
> starting a framework but then nothing ever materialized.
>
>> The best will be to remove mii_phy entirely.
>
> sounds good to me ... i imagine the existing functionality might need to be
> converted into one of the common net frameworks that has been adopted ?
Who is responsible for ep8260 and rpxsuper boards?
For ep8260: I cc'ed Frank Panno but his email address doesn't work.
Thanks,
Michal
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-26 6:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-25 7:25 [U-Boot] mii_phy.h Michal Simek
2011-08-25 14:20 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-08-26 6:19 ` Michal Simek [this message]
2011-08-26 6:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
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