On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:21:49PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
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> As the openfirmware + gpio + mdio driver might benefit non-powerpc platforms, 
> I plan to create a new driver (probably drivers/net/phy/mdio-ofgpio.c) that 
> mostly ports drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c to the gpiolib (this replaces 
> around 90% of the code).
> 
> If both drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c and drivers/net/phy/mdio-ofgpio.c 
> must live together, 

The only reason I can see for that would be if the gpiolib version
doesn't work on arch/ppc -- but that's not going to be a problem for very
much longer.

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> I'll have a problem in drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c. The net
> device probing code searches the device tree for an associated PHY, and
> creates a PHY id from the PHY node. As the id will be generated from
> different bus ids in the two mdio drivers (the bus number is the
> register address for drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c, and is the gpio
> index for drivers/net/phy/mdio-ofgpio.c), things will break.
> 
> Any idea regarding how to get rid of that fs_enet/mii-bitbang hardcoded 
> dependency ?

If mii-bitbang is only used on arch/ppc, then #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MERGE
should do it.

It'd be nice to be able to give phylib an OF node rather than a string,
though...

-Scott
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