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From: Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>
To: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: bitrot in drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:15:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41FA8146.20803@embeddedalley.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050128102056.A9216@cox.net>


> I suggest everyone take a look at the effort posted to netdev:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2004-12/msg00643.html

That's the work Dan told me about. Now we just have to update the 
au1x driver :)

Pete


> It's an attempt at a phy abstraction layer that goes the next
> logical step after the minimal support provided in mii.h.
> 
> It's evolved out of the in-driver abstraction that is currently
> used in the sungem, ibm_emac, and gianfar drivers in 2.6. It
> was just a matter of time before somebody got tired of copying
> the same PHY mgmt bits into every driver. :)
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-28 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-28 14:01 bitrot in drivers/net/au1000_eth.c Ulrich Eckhardt
2005-01-28 17:01 ` Pete Popov
2005-01-28 17:20   ` Matt Porter
2005-01-28 18:15     ` Pete Popov [this message]
2005-01-29 10:04     ` Ulrich Eckhardt
2005-01-30 11:50 ` Ulrich Eckhardt

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