From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Add support for SMSC/Microchip LAN9303 3-port switch Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:00:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20140228.130020.2022765291621434648.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1393492072-15364-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de> <20140227.170240.1910151216729314077.davem@davemloft.net> <531057A4.5020607@denx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, r.meier@siemens.com, lukas.stockmann@siemens.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com To: sr@denx.de Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:57619 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752914AbaB1SAW (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:00:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <531057A4.5020607@denx.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stefan Roese Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:32:20 +0100 > On 27.02.2014 23:02, David Miller wrote: >> From: Stefan Roese >> 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.