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From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger•com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx•de>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	dzu@denx•de, netdev@vger•kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org,
	agust@denx•de, kosmo@semihalf•com,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab•ca>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] fs_enet: Add support for MPC512x to fs_enet driver
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:13:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5FF59E.3090805@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001270306.22089.arnd@arndb.de>

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 24 January 2010, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> In message <4B5C5BDF.6020001@grandegger•com> you wrote:
>>> You are probably right and your proposal would likely result in more
>>> transparent (less ugly) code. There has been some discussion about
>>> unifying FEC drivers when the patches (with the same subject) have been
>>> submitted for the first time in May last year, but it was not about 512x
>>> and 8xx, IIRC.
>> You can re-read this discussion here:
>>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/26927/
>>
>> ee especiall Grant's note of 2009-05-21 15:36:11: "If it looks too
>> ugly, then just fork the driver."
> 
> Ok. I fully agree with what Grant said in that thread, especially the
> way the files could be split. Forking the entire driver would work
> as an easy way to get it running at first, and we still have the option
> of reorganizing the duplicate parts later in a saner way if that's seen
> as helpful. I'd assume that at least some parts of it could become a
> lib_fs_enet module that can be shared by all of them.

Yes, I also vote for forking the driver allowing a clean implementation.
 I don't think it makes sense to share a driver with the 8xx for the
reasons you already mentioned. And the 8xx is a dying out arch anyway.

Wolfgang.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-21  2:13 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/3] Support for MPC512x FEC Anatolij Gustschin
2010-01-21  2:13 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] fs_enet: use dev_xxx instead of printk Anatolij Gustschin
2010-01-21 16:43   ` Grant Likely
2010-01-21  2:13 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] fs_enet: Add support for MPC512x to fs_enet driver Anatolij Gustschin
2010-01-21  9:22   ` David Miller
2010-01-21  9:33     ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-01-21 15:25     ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2010-01-22  2:03       ` David Miller
2010-01-22  9:35         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2010-02-09 14:23         ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-02-09 20:13           ` David Miller
2010-02-10  9:15             ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2010-02-10 10:20               ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2010-02-10 14:28                 ` Grant Likely
2010-01-23  9:23       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-24 14:40         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2010-01-24 16:41           ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-01-27  2:06             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-27  8:13               ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]
2010-01-21 20:15   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2010-01-21  2:13 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3] fs_enet: Add FEC TX Alignment workaround for MPC5121 Anatolij Gustschin
2010-01-21 16:49   ` Grant Likely

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