netdev - Re: [PATCH] phylib: add mdio-gpio bus driver (v3)

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Message-ID: <fa686aa40810280726s338c739bl24ee53d3193292ba@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:26:59 -0600
From:	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	"Paulius Zaleckas" <paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt>
Cc:	"Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: add mdio-gpio bus driver (v3)

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Paulius Zaleckas
<paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt> wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:35, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
>>> +config MDIO_GPIO
>>> +       tristate "Support for GPIO bitbanged MDIO buses"
>>>  config MDIO_OF_GPIO
>>>        tristate "Support for GPIO lib-based bitbanged MDIO buses"
>>
>> seems to me these drivers have the same description ...
>
> Yes... but it is MDIO_OF_GPIO description that needs changing...
> Should I make patch for it?

Wait a minute....  This is the same driver and it's just been
duplicated.  NAK.  Please don't do this.  Instead add a platform bus
binding to the existing driver.  Most of the code can be shared.

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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