netdev - Re: [PATCH] remove isa stuff from smc91x driver

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Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:19:20 +0100
From:	Luotao Fu <l.fu@...gutronix.de>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Luotao Fu <l.fu@...gutronix.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  remove isa stuff from smc91x driver

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 02:52:35PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed,  3 Dec 2008 15:48:21 +0100
> Luotao Fu <l.fu@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > From: Luotao Fu <lfu@...gutronix.de>
> > 
> > ISA support in smc91x is incomplete. I doubt there're any smc91x isa card.
> > This driver is greatly used on arm pxa platforms. Hence we remove the
> > isa stuff from smc91x driver.
> 
> This makes no sense. It is protected by an ifdef anyway so doesn't affect
> ARM

The isa part in smc91x does nothing at all. Get you a unused variable warning if
you turn ISA on and compile it. The io table is defined and not used at all.
Neither does the io address and irq by parameter. I think that these are waste
code and should be removed.

Cheers
Luotao Fu
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