netdev - Re: create drivers/net/mdio and move mdio drivers into it

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Date:   Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:30:19 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     YUAN Linyu <Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "cugyly@....com" <cugyly@....com>
Subject: Re: create drivers/net/mdio and move mdio drivers into it

> Big picture is we can remove struct mii_bus,

So if you remove this, how do you represent MII as a bus? It is a bus,
clause 22 allows up to 32 devices on it, and i have boards with more
than 8 devices on the bus. Clause 44 allows many more devices on the
bus.

	Andrew