netdev - Re: [RFC fs_enet: Convert MII bitbang driver to use GPIO lib

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:55:13 +0200
From:	Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@...-semaphore.com>
To:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, avorontsov@...mvista.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC fs_enet: Convert MII bitbang driver to use GPIO lib

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 17:36, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:21:49PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > 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.

Didn't you mention platforms such as ep8248e as well, where mdiobb would be 
the only gpiolib user ?

> > 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.

Ok.

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

Doesn't phylib have non-OF users ?

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Laurent Pinchart
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