From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:07:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4755B395.6070104@garzik.org> References: <20071126142906.19642.45540.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Vitaly Bordug Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:53422 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751108AbXLDUHw (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:07:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071126142906.19642.45540.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Vitaly Bordug wrote: > With that patch fixed.c now fully emulates MDIO bus, thus no need > to duplicate PHY layer functionality. That, in turn, drastically > simplifies the code, and drops down line count. > > As an additional bonus, now there is no need to register MDIO bus > for each PHY, all emulated PHYs placed on the platform fixed MDIO bus. > There is also no more need to pre-allocate PHYs via .config option, > this is all now handled dynamically. > > p.s. Don't even try to understand patch content! Better: apply patch > and look into resulting drivers/net/phy/fixed.c. > > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov > Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug ACK, I presume this will go via the ppc tree?