[PATCH] [RFC] net: smc911x: Drop the standalone EEPROM example

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 07:23:07PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 3/17/20 7:10 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 8:19 AM Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Drop the example, for two reasons. First, it is tapping directly into
> >> the IO accessors of the SMC911x, while it should instead go through
> >> the net device API. Second, this makes conversion of the SMC911x driver
> >> to DM real hard.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
> >> Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
> >> ---
> >>  examples/standalone/Makefile         |   1 -
> >>  examples/standalone/smc911x_eeprom.c | 379 ---------------------------
> >>  2 files changed, 380 deletions(-)
> >>  delete mode 100644 examples/standalone/smc911x_eeprom.c
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah, I was disturbed by this example code.
> > 
> > I agree we should drop it.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> 
> Well I dunno. Can this be rewritten on top of DM somehow ? Do we even
> have U-Boot application API to access DM EEPROM ?

We should just drop it I think.  The biggest surface we have today for
external application is EFI application now, not U-Boot specific API.
We can't drop the API but we don't expand it without very good reason.

-- 
Tom
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