From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Ethtool style in kernel network driver configuration. Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:10:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20090613171039.GC16775@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <20090612105019.GA21599@sirena.org.uk> <20090612.043350.38954875.davem@davemloft.net> <20090612122431.GA8861@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20090612.170157.205072127.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: mfuzzey@gmail.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, nico@cam.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:50650 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754194AbZFMRKi (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:10:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090612.170157.205072127.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:01:57PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Mark Brown > > OpenFirmware works well enough on the platforms that use it but it's far > > from universal. > Sounds like an argument for it being more-so :-) It'd be nice if it were; one of my problems with OpenFirmware right now is that it just makes for more work since it just winds up meaning we have to do platform data two ways. If we made a decision to move to using OpenFirmware more consistently this would be less of an issue.