netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] fs_enet: Add support for MPC512x to fs

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:13:18 +0100
From:	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Wolfgang Denk <wd@...x.de>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dzu@...x.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, agust@...x.de,
	kosmo@...ihalf.com, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] fs_enet: Add support for MPC512x to
 fs_enet driver

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 24 January 2010, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> In message <4B5C5BDF.6020001@...ndegger.com> you wrote:
>>> You are probably right and your proposal would likely result in more
>>> transparent (less ugly) code. There has been some discussion about
>>> unifying FEC drivers when the patches (with the same subject) have been
>>> submitted for the first time in May last year, but it was not about 512x
>>> and 8xx, IIRC.
>> You can re-read this discussion here:
>>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/26927/
>>
>> ee especiall Grant's note of 2009-05-21 15:36:11: "If it looks too
>> ugly, then just fork the driver."
> 
> Ok. I fully agree with what Grant said in that thread, especially the
> way the files could be split. Forking the entire driver would work
> as an easy way to get it running at first, and we still have the option
> of reorganizing the duplicate parts later in a saner way if that's seen
> as helpful. I'd assume that at least some parts of it could become a
> lib_fs_enet module that can be shared by all of them.

Yes, I also vote for forking the driver allowing a clean implementation.
 I don't think it makes sense to share a driver with the 8xx for the
reasons you already mentioned. And the 8xx is a dying out arch anyway.

Wolfgang.
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