[RFC fs_enet: Convert MII bitbang driver to use GPIO lib

Anton Vorontsov avorontsov at ru.mvista.com
Thu Apr 17 02:05:40 EST 2008


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:40:42PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> This patch converts the MII bitband driver to use GPIO lib for GPIO access.
> The driver can now handle MDC and MDIO on different GPIO banks.
> 
> The patch depends on Anton Vorontsov GPIO lib support scheduled for 2.6.26.
> It is by no means complete, I just would like to get some feedback on the
> approach. I'll resubmit it when the CPM2 GPIO support patches will be
> available in the powerpc git tree.

Cool! By the way, maybe it is worth splitting it into completely separate
driver, e.g. net/mdio_gpio.c? Plus, keep in mind that somebody will
eventually want this cool stuff with platform_device bindings in addition. :-)

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Anton Vorontsov
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