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

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Apr 23 02:04:22 EST 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:55:13PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 17:36, Scott Wood wrote:
> > The only reason I can see for that would be if the gpiolib version
> > doesn't work on arch/ppc -- but that's not going to be a problem for very
> > much longer.
> 
> Didn't you mention platforms such as ep8248e as well, where mdiobb would be 
> the only gpiolib user ?

That was when I thought you were talking about changing
drivers/net/phy/mdio-bitbang.c.  ep8248e doesn't use
drivers/net/fs-enet/mii-bitbang.c.

> > It'd be nice to be able to give phylib an OF node rather than a string,
> > though...
> 
> Doesn't phylib have non-OF users ?

I meant as an option, not the only way to specify it.

-Scott



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