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

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 18:05, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> 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?

Splitting it into a completely separate driver makes sense.

> Plus, keep in mind that somebody will eventually want this cool stuff with
> platform_device bindings in addition. :-) 

I'm sure that person will be happy to implement platform_device bindings :-)

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