linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] bus: Add shared MDIO bus framework

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:26:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andrew@...n.ch
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] bus: Add shared MDIO bus framework

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:13:35 +0200

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:03:27PM +0530, Pramod Kumar wrote:
>> As you can see from above points, trying to re-use Linux Ethernet MDIO mux
>> framework for non-Ethernet PHYs is not the right way.
> 
> And as i pointed out, all your arguments are wrong, bar one. And i
> doubt that one argument is sufficient to duplicate a lot of code which
> already exists and does 95% of what you need.

+1