From: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: add mdio-gpio bus driver (v3)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:44:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49082264.7060302@teltonika.lt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa686aa40810280726s338c739bl24ee53d3193292ba@mail.gmail.com>
Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Paulius Zaleckas
> <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt> wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:35, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
>>>> +config MDIO_GPIO
>>>> + tristate "Support for GPIO bitbanged MDIO buses"
>>>> config MDIO_OF_GPIO
>>>> tristate "Support for GPIO lib-based bitbanged MDIO buses"
>>> seems to me these drivers have the same description ...
>> Yes... but it is MDIO_OF_GPIO description that needs changing...
>> Should I make patch for it?
>
> Wait a minute.... This is the same driver and it's just been
> duplicated. NAK. Please don't do this. Instead add a platform bus
> binding to the existing driver. Most of the code can be shared.
It is very similar. If highly #ifdef'ed driver is OK then I can merge
these driver to single one, but mdio-ofgpio driver name will have to
change to mdio-gpio. OK?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-28 10:35 [PATCH] phylib: add mdio-gpio bus driver (v3) Paulius Zaleckas
2008-10-28 10:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-10-28 11:31 ` Paulius Zaleckas
2008-10-28 14:26 ` Grant Likely
2008-10-29 8:44 ` Paulius Zaleckas [this message]
2008-10-29 13:24 ` Grant Likely
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