netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4 for 2.6.31] NET: Revive fixed link support

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:35:25 -0600
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	avorontsov@...mvista.com
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Li Yang <leoli@...escale.com>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 for 2.6.31] NET: Revive fixed link support

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Anton
Vorontsov<avorontsov@...mvista.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The fixed link support is broken since The Big OF MDIO Rework,
> the rework simply removed most of the code that was needed for
> fixed links.
>
> Too bad I didn't notice this earlier, I saw a bunch of patches
> on the ml, but unfortunately I didn't look very close presuming
> that Grant knew what he was doing. :-) And obviously I didn't
> test linux-next on anything that requires a fixed link.

Apparently I didn't.  sorry.

> Anyway, here are four patches. The first one adds the fixed link
> support to a framework, otherwise we'd duplicate the code across
> the drivers (as we did previously), and I tried to keep drivers'
> changes minimal.

As I described in my previous email, I don't think this is a good
approach and I don't think it should be merged.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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