netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] Amiga PCMCIA 100 MBit card support

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Message-ID: <201e7069-a8c3-191f-501a-44fc6c46ae94@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:41:36 +1300
From:   Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, alex@...ik.de,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
        rolf.anders@...sik.uni-augsburg.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Amiga PCMCIA 100 MBit card support

Hi Andrew,

On 31/12/18 11:47 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> Having so many front end drivers for a chipset should be done in a
>>> more modular manner, so that in fact they could all coexist if
>>> necessary.
>> Not sure I follow your meaning ... are you suggesting to allow the back end
>> driver to use run-time selectable IO accessors and other generic helper
>> functions, so the drivers currenlty including lib8390.c directly could use
>> the core code from the 8390 module instead?
> Yes, David is suggesting you abstract the code so it can be built once
> to support all the different interfaces and architectures.

Thanks for clarifying - I'll see what I can come up with.

I can only test on ne.c and xsurf100.c though.

Cheers,

     Michael




>     Andrew