Re: [RFC fs_enet: Convert MII bitbang driver to use GPIO lib

[Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>]

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On Monday 21 April 2008 19:56, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:34:29PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Scott Wood was concerned in 
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=17490 that the gpio lib
> > might be an unnecessary burden for memory-constraint platforms. Should we
> > keep two mdio bitbang drivers, one with direct access to the ports and one
> > using gpio lib ? The later solves the concurrent access issues present in
> > the current fs_enet mdio bitbang driber.
> 
> The memory-constrained platform I had in mind was 8xx, which doesn't use
> bitbanged MDIO.  It might nice to keep the gpiolib bit separate to avoid
> situations such as ep8248e where mdiobb would be the only thing requiring
> a gpiolib binding, though -- but it shouldn't be two separate bitbang
> drivers, just the existing bitbang driver plus some glue code that binds
> it to gpiolib.

I would be fine with that if the glue code wasn't 90% of the whole driver. 
There is really little (not to say nothing) that can be shared between the 
two drivers.

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