From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:27:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110497267.32524.295.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4230D7F4.8060900@pobox.com>
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 18:27 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I haven't had time to review the phy abstraction layer, but my gut
> feeling is that there are several common code patterns which could be
> abstracted out, to save code.
>
> Typically there will be one or more phy-specific functions in each
> 10/100 or GigE driver, falling back to a default 'genphy' driver when
> things are completely MII/GMII-compatible.
Exactly. One thing for which i usually need PHY specific functions
(pretty much all the time) is PHY init (thanks Broadcom) and suspend.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-10 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-09 1:47 RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II Andy Fleming
2005-03-09 2:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-09 3:42 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-09 3:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-09 17:24 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-10 23:01 ` James Chapman
2005-03-10 23:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-10 23:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-10 23:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-15 0:41 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-15 19:18 ` James Chapman
2005-03-18 23:14 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-24 21:48 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-25 22:56 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-28 23:45 ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-29 4:11 ` Problem when accessing variables Hiep Tran
[not found] ` <42625DDB.4090600@katalix.com>
2005-05-10 17:04 ` RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II Andy Fleming
2005-05-12 6:08 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-05-25 23:00 ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-09 17:17 ` Andy Fleming
2005-05-26 18:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-26 18:45 ` Andy Fleming
2005-05-31 17:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-06-01 20:45 ` Andy Fleming
2005-06-01 21:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-06-01 22:42 ` Andy Fleming
2005-06-01 21:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-06-01 22:36 ` Andy Fleming
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