From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>,
jeff@garzik.org, shemminger@osdl.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] atl1: Main C file for Attansic L1 driver
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:21:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611201322.00495.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45614769.4020005@redhat.com>
On Monday 20 November 2006 07:12, Chris Snook wrote:
> >
> > Any reason why you can't use generic_mii_ioctl?
>
> I decided to mostly leave this code alone, in the hope that we could
> just rip out MII support entirely and nobody would mind. What do you think?
>
Normally, I think you should just implement mdio_read/mdio_write functions
and then use all the helpers from drivers/net/mii.c to implement mii_ioctl
and other functions like ethtool_gset.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-19 20:30 [PATCH 3/4] atl1: Main C file for Attansic L1 driver Jay Cliburn
2006-11-19 21:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-19 23:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-20 6:12 ` Chris Snook
2006-11-20 12:21 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-11-20 18:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-20 19:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-20 20:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-20 21:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-20 21:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-20 22:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-20 23:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-20 12:39 ` Chris Snook
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-11 0:42 Jay Cliburn
2007-01-11 9:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-21 21:06 Jay Cliburn
2007-01-22 8:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-22 16:48 ` Jay Cliburn
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