[PATCH 10/11] Add MPC8360EMDS board support
Eugene Surovegin
ebs at ebshome.net
Thu Oct 5 16:31:18 EST 2006
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 04:26:34PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 23:21 -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:36:59AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Ugh ? Look at the #ifdef mess in ibm_emac...
> >
> > Ugh?
> >
> > I think you have to thank IBM/AMCC designers which keep changing bit
> > layout of some registers, sometimes just changing polarity for no
> > reason.
> >
> > And with all due respect, Ben. Current ibm_emac despite of all "mess"
> > is actually usable in production environment, which cannot be said
> > about initial Armin version and second version you started but never
> > got time to actually finish.
>
> That second version was working fine... on the limited available
> variations of EMAC back then.
No it wasn't. If it were I would have never wasted my time re-writing
this driver.
--
Eugene
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