linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 2/6] net: Add MDIO bus driver for the Allwinner EMAC

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Message-ID: <20130524101419.GC8785@lukather>
Date:	Fri, 24 May 2013 12:14:19 +0200
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stefan Roese <sr@...x.de>,
	Emilio Lopez <emilio@...pez.com.ar>, kevin@...winnertech.com,
	sunny@...winnertech.com, shuge@...winnertech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/6] net: Add MDIO bus driver for the Allwinner EMAC

Hi Florian,

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:42:30AM +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hello Maxime,
> 
> 2013/5/24 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
> >
> > This patch adds a separate driver for the MDIO interface of the
> > Allwinner ethernet controllers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
> > ---
> >  .../bindings/net/allwinner,sun4i-mdio.txt          |  26 +++
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/allwinner/Kconfig             |   8 +
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/allwinner/Makefile            |   1 +
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/allwinner/sun4i-mdio.c        | 191 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Ok, so you probably followed Thomas's example here with mvneta/mvmdio,
> but all other MDIO bus drivers live in drivers/net/phy.

Indeed I shamelessly followed Thomas here.

> Unfortunately, mvmdio lives in drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvmdio.c
> which I should have noticed before. Whatever is good for you guys, but
> we should probably start normalizing this now before more mdio drivers
> get merged alongside their corresponding ethernet MAC users.

I'm fine with either way, just tell me where to put it and I'll happily
do so.

Maxime

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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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