From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sr@denx.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, r.meier@siemens.com,
lukas.stockmann@siemens.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Add support for SMSC/Microchip LAN9303 3-port switch
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:00:20 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140228.130020.2022765291621434648.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <531057A4.5020607@denx.de>
From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:32:20 +0100
> On 27.02.2014 23:02, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:07:52 +0100
>>
>> Better is to come up with a real, types, interface for programming
>> such devices and providing an implementation of that.
>
> Right. Such a thing would be better. But as Florian already pointed
> out, nothing like this is available in kernel.org right now. Thats the
> reason why I chose to implement this "simple" driver, btw as done in
> drivers/net/phy/spi_ks8995.c.
When a suitable user facing interface is lacking, you create one
and submit it for review here. You don't just submit adhoc driver
local stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-28 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-27 9:07 [PATCH] net: phy: Add support for SMSC/Microchip LAN9303 3-port switch Stefan Roese
2014-02-27 22:02 ` David Miller
2014-02-27 22:21 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-03-11 15:49 ` Yegor Yefremov
2014-02-28 9:32 ` Stefan Roese
2014-02-28 18:00 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-03-11 20:11 ` Yegor Yefremov
2014-03-11 20:14 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-03-12 8:47 ` Yegor Yefremov
2014-03-12 8:55 ` Meier, Roger
2014-03-11 20:39 ` David Miller
2014-03-12 8:43 ` Yegor Yefremov
2014-03-12 20:21 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-03-13 22:42 ` Yegor Yefremov
2014-03-14 14:29 ` Ben Hutchings
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