netdev - Re: [PATCH] fsl_pq_mdio: Clean up tbi address configuration

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Date:	Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:44:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	afleming@...escale.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsl_pq_mdio: Clean up tbi address configuration

From: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:54:11 -0500

> The code for setting the address of the internal TBI PHY was
> convoluted enough without a maze of ifdefs. Clean it up a bit
> so we allow the logic to fail down to -ENODEV at the end of
> the if/else ladder, rather than using ifdefs to repeat the same
> failure code over and over.
> 
> Also, remove the support for the auto-configuration. I'm not aware of
> anyone using it, and it ends up using the bus mutex before it's been
> initialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>

Cleanups of this nature are not appropriate to submit at this time,
please wait until the net-next tree becomes active again.
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