From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Simek Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:19:26 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] mii_phy.h In-Reply-To: <201108251020.50450.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <4E55F8EC.50001@monstr.eu> <201108251020.50450.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <4E573AEE.2060406@monstr.eu> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday, August 25, 2011 03:25:32 Michal Simek wrote: >> Can someone clear me purpose of mii_phy.h? It looks like that it is really >> ancient file which hasn't been touched from 2003. >> >> It is use for two files >> [monstr at monstr u-boot]$ grep -rn "mii_phy.h" * >> board/ep8260/mii_phy.c:2:#include >> board/rpxsuper/mii_phy.c:2:#include > > yes, if you look at old files, you often see people using generic names when > they should have been driver or arch specific, or people who thought about > starting a framework but then nothing ever materialized. > >> The best will be to remove mii_phy entirely. > > sounds good to me ... i imagine the existing functionality might need to be > converted into one of the common net frameworks that has been adopted ? Who is responsible for ep8260 and rpxsuper boards? For ep8260: I cc'ed Frank Panno but his email address doesn't work. Thanks, Michal -- Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng) w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 Maintainer of Linux kernel 2.6 Microblaze Linux - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/ Microblaze U-BOOT custodian