From: "Joakim Tjernlund" <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
To: "'Vitaly Bordug'" <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>,
"'Paul Mackerras'" <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, 'linuxppc-dev' <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layerfunctionality
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:13:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003c01c84a3e$15d3a9c0$02ac10ac@Jocke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071206225121.31080.86606.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> linuxppc-dev-bounces+joakim.tjernlund=transmode.se@ozlabs.org
> [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+joakim.tjernlund=transmode.se@ozl
> abs.org] On Behalf Of Vitaly Bordug
> Sent: den 6 december 2007 23:51
> To: Paul Mackerras
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev
> Subject: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not
> duplicate PHY layerfunctionality
>
>
> With that patch fixed.c now fully emulates MDIO bus, thus no need
> to duplicate PHY layer functionality. That, in turn, drastically
> simplifies the code, and drops down line count.
>
> As an additional bonus, now there is no need to register MDIO bus
> for each PHY, all emulated PHYs placed on the platform fixed MDIO bus.
> There is also no more need to pre-allocate PHYs via .config option,
> this is all now handled dynamically.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
What happened to this patch set? Is it sitting in a tree somewhere waiting
for 2.4.25 or does it need more work?
Jocke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-29 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 22:51 [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality Vitaly Bordug
2007-12-06 22:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] [POWERPC] fsl_soc: add support for gianfar for fixed-link property Vitaly Bordug
2008-01-18 6:46 ` Kumar Gala
2007-12-06 22:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: Vitesse 7385 PHY is not connected to the MDIO bus Vitaly Bordug
2008-01-18 6:46 ` Kumar Gala
2007-12-29 17:13 ` Joakim Tjernlund [this message]
2008-01-10 15:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layerfunctionality Anton Vorontsov
2008-01-18 6:45 ` [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality Kumar Gala
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