On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 20:10 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > IIRC, Ben had some issues with how phylib and the EMAC would need to > > interact. Not sure if he has those written down somewhere or not. > > (CC'd). > > Hmm, yeah, I'd be interested to see those. There's enough similar > between phylib and the EMAC and sungem drivers that I'm considering a > series of somewhat-mechanical patches to make EMAC and sungem use the > "struct phy_device" and "struct mii_bus" from phylib, possibly > abstracting out some helper functions along the way.
Yup, emac and sungem predate phylib. I had a quick look at what it would take to port at least emac over, the main issue was that I want to be able to sleep (ie, take a mutex) in my mdio read/write functions, and back then, phylib wouldn't let me do that due to spinlock and timer/softirq usage. Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev