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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:26:52 -0500
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] Current 4xx patch series
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:38:16AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:39 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > Someone brought up the fact that the EMAC rewrite is mostly just
> > changing probing code and the guts are still similar to the current
> > EMAC driver.  I haven't really looked into it yet, but if that's true,
> > I'd be curious as to why it was done that way.
> 
> Ask :-) What specifically do you want to know ?

:)

Are the guts mostly the same, and if so why wasn't the existing driver just
modified to do the device tree probing, perhaps in addition to the arch/ppc
method?

I can answer the "are they similar" myself with inspection, but I just haven't
found the time yet.  So just some history about the patch would be good in
general I think.

josh