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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, afleming@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: update mdiobus_alloc() to allocate extra private space
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:37:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEBAC0C.4020104@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111216.153254.1998330487051662169.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> Make the change how I suggested, where mdiobus_alloc() retains it's current
> function signature and semantics.  Then you can edit drivers as needed rather
> than from the beginning.

Yes, your approach makes much more sense.  I should have thought of it.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-16 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-15 16:51 [PATCH] phylib: update mdiobus_alloc() to allocate extra private space Timur Tabi
2011-12-15 17:06 ` Andy Fleming
2011-12-15 17:12   ` Timur Tabi
2011-12-16 20:32     ` David Miller
2011-12-16 20:37       ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2011-12-16 20:31 ` David Miller

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