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

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 07:39:49PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 3/17/20 7:30 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> But this drops the ability to access the SMC911x EEPROM too.
> So maybe we need some DM EEPROM implementation in the SMC911x driver ?
> Does anyone have SMC911x with an external EEPROM ?

All this does is drop an example.  I don't see anything removing API
code itself.

-- 
Tom
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