On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Sep 19, John Nemeth wrote
> >      No.  One physical device -> one line in the config file.  Having
> > to put three lines in the config file for one physical board with a
> > single function is gross and absolutely rediculous.
> ...
> You CAN attach multiple devices to a MII bus (up to 32). And the ethernet board
> I'm working on has 2 PHYs: one for the 10b2 port, and one for the 10/100 rj45
> port. Not to mention boards that can do ethernet/100vg anylan.

The real question is, is there any reason at all that someone would
want to include a device driver for a card that did not support
certain PHYs not available on the card. If not, why bother to make
it configurable? It just adds unnecessary complexity to the config
file.

I really don't see any need to split this out.

cjs

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