From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Driver for Asix AX88172A only? Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110401.125437.193712220.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20110401165328.20091msct39m3en4@webmail.df.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: michael@riesch.at Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:48005 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754857Ab1DATzP (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:55:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110401165328.20091msct39m3en4@webmail.df.eu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Michael Riesch Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:53:28 +0200 > What do you think: should the mainline driver be adapted to support > the AX88172A (with all his features) or a new driver for the AX88172A > only should be created (probably based on the existing mainline > driver). I think the mainline driver should be adapted to support the new chips with external PHYs etc.