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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
Cc: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	"Paulius Zaleckas" <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
	"Laurent Pinchart" <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: make mdio-gpio work without OF (v2)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:03:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811051503.51040.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811050957.25821.marc.pignat@hevs.ch>

On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Marc Pignat wrote:
> This is why I proposed to split the driver in two parts (gpio only mdio
> driver + OF platform device). Just treating OF GPIO as any other GPIO.

I think that's overall a much cleaner approach too.  Keeps
OF's hardware abstraction layer out of drivers.

But for some reason the OF folk don't like that model.
It comes up repeatedly, with lots of frameworks and their
drivers.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-05 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-04 14:45 [PATCH] phylib: make mdio-gpio work without OF (v2) Paulius Zaleckas
2008-11-04 15:45 ` Marc Pignat
2008-11-04 15:57   ` Grant Likely
2008-11-04 16:24 ` Grant Likely
2008-11-05  0:04   ` David Brownell
2008-11-05  0:09     ` Mike Frysinger
2008-11-05  4:45       ` David Brownell
2008-11-05  5:34         ` Mike Frysinger
2008-11-05  8:11           ` David Brownell
2008-11-05  8:32             ` Mike Frysinger
2008-11-05  8:57               ` Marc Pignat
2008-11-05 23:03                 ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-11-05  8:57               ` Paulius Zaleckas
2008-11-05  9:04                 ` Paulius Zaleckas
2008-11-05 15:04                 ` Grant Likely
2008-11-05 22:59                   ` David Brownell

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