netdev - Re: [PATCH] phylib: make mdio-gpio work without OF (v2)

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Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:03:50 -0800
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@...s.ch>
Cc:	"Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@...il.com>,
	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	"Paulius Zaleckas" <paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org,
	"Laurent Pinchart" <laurentp@...-semaphore.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: make mdio-gpio work without OF (v2)

On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Marc Pignat wrote:
> This is why I proposed to split the driver in two parts (gpio only mdio
> driver + OF platform device). Just treating OF GPIO as any other GPIO.

I think that's overall a much cleaner approach too.  Keeps
OF's hardware abstraction layer out of drivers.

But for some reason the OF folk don't like that model.
It comes up repeatedly, with lots of frameworks and their
drivers.

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