netdev - Re: [PATCH, RFC] Extend smc911x to support LAN921x chips

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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:22:36 +0200
From:	Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@...x.de>
Cc:	Steve.Glendinning@...c.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ian.Saturley@...c.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Extend smc911x to support LAN921x chips

>>>>> "Guennadi" == Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@...x.de> writes:

Hi,

 Guennadi> LAN921x controllers from SMSC register cmpatible with
 Guennadi> LAN911x chips, the driver only needs to recognise
 Guennadi> respective chip IDs. Patch also adds network support for
 Guennadi> the pcm037 board, using this chip.

 Guennadi> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@...x.de>

 Guennadi> ---

 Guennadi> This is an RFC just to let everyone comment on it, it
 Guennadi> probably would also be better to split it into two patches
 Guennadi> - one only for drivers/net and one for arch/arm plus the
 Guennadi> Kconfig hunk. Based on 2.6.27, would be nice to get it into
 Guennadi> 2.6.28. The CC-list is kept from the previous discussion
 Guennadi> regarding this driver-extension.

It looks good, but you should definately split out the arm and cleanup
stuff from the new IDs.

 Guennadi> @@ -722,6 +724,9 @@ static void smc911x_phy_detect(struct net_device *dev)
 Guennadi>  						break;
 Guennadi>  					}
 Guennadi>  				}
 Guennadi> +				if (phyaddr < 32)
 Guennadi> +					/* Found an external PHY */
 Guennadi> +					break;

What's this for? Isn't that handled just above?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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