In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Semen A. Ustimenko" write s: >Hi! > >I was just thinking about the purpose of this method... What is it? > >It used to be used by NIC drivers to add something like AUI beside MII >provided media, correct? > >But it looks like every PHY's driver thinks it must call MEDIAINIT in its >attach() routine. So, if there would be two PHY on MII (can this happen?), >then the method will be called twice, and some NIC drivers (tx, xl, dc, >maybe more) will not behave well. > >Isn't it reasonable to stop all PHY drivers from calling MEDIAINIT, and >call it once per miibus instance in miibus_attach() or miibus_probe() >instead?
I just had reason to mess around with a PHY GigE related problem as well, and I can only say that the MII code might have sounded like a good idea at the time but the implementation sucks as far as I can tell. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
