Subject: Re: Sharing MII and I2C code in ethernet drivers
To: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
From: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/22/1997 12:03:37
On Sep 21, Ty Sarna wrote
> Not to mention the code to implement this stuff as a bus, which, it
> seems to me, could even mean the binary would would grow rather than
> shrink. 

This code is needed, even if the bus doesn't appear in config file.
MII is really a bus, and allow any combination of controller and PHYs.
We really need a way to attach any PHY to any controller. Using the config
system is one.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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