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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: create drivers/net/mdio and move mdio drivers into it
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:30:19 +0100
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> Big picture is we can remove struct mii_bus,

So if you remove this, how do you represent MII as a bus? It is a bus,
clause 22 allows up to 32 devices on it, and i have boards with more
than 8 devices on the bus. Clause 44 allows many more devices on the
bus.

	Andrew