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Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2015 17:16:55 +0000
From:	James Hartley <James.Hartley@...tec.com>
To:	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Govindraj Raja <Govindraj.Raja@...tec.com>,
	Damien Horsley <Damien.Horsley@...tec.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V2 2/2] stmmac: Add IMG Pistachio platform glue layer



> -----Original Message-----
> From: abrestic@...gle.com [mailto:abrestic@...gle.com] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Bresticker
> Sent: 06 April 2015 23:28
> To: Arnd Bergmann; James Hartley
> Cc: David S. Miller; Giuseppe Cavallaro; devicetree@...r.kernel.org;
> netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Govindraj Raja
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] stmmac: Add IMG Pistachio platform glue layer
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 April 2015 14:42:38 Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> >> At the moment, the only additional setup required for the DWMAC on
> >> the IMG Pistachio SoC is to request and enable a separate gate clock
> >> for the register interface.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Govindraj Raja <govindraj.raja@...tec.com>
> >> Cc: James Hartley <james.hartley@...tec.com>
> >
> > Why do you need a special glue driver for that?
> >
> > Since you don't do anything special, I'd say it should be possible to
> > handle this with just the default driver.
> 
> Right, at the moment we only need to request and enable a second clock,
> which could be added to the core driver.  If we don't expect to have to
> extend this driver to deal with other configurations (which IIRC there were
> some concerns about when I wrote this), then I'm fine with folding this change
> into the core driver - James?

Weren't the concerns about USB not Ethernet?  I don't remember anything that would stop us extending the driver for eth.

> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew

James.

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