On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:01:36AM -0800, Pete Popov wrote: > Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: <snip> > > 3. Split off the MII handling code or, better, reuse the facility already > > provided by drivers/net/mii.c. This would mean a significant rewrite of > > au1x00.c, including probably breaking things on the way. > > That's a possibility too but more code needs to be added to mii.c. I > actually revisited the code yesterday and was trying to figure out > how to clean it up. But someone told me that there is 2.6 work in > progress to do this so I decided to just wait. Maybe someone knows > more about it. I suggest everyone take a look at the effort posted to netdev: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2004-12/msg00643.html It's an attempt at a phy abstraction layer that goes the next logical step after the minimal support provided in mii.h. It's evolved out of the in-driver abstraction that is currently used in the sungem, ibm_emac, and gianfar drivers in 2.6. It was just a matter of time before somebody got tired of copying the same PHY mgmt bits into every driver. :) -Matt
