Re: Second Attempt: Driver model usage on embedded processors

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 23:03 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:

The intent was that I would use the platform_data pointer to pass =

board=20

specific information to the driver.  We would have board specific code =

which would fill in the information.  The question I have is how to=20
handle the device variant information which is really static?

I use a 'struct device_ethernet_data' in my MPC85xx platform-device
patches at http://www.evillabs.net/~gus/patches

That seems to work well, and we could move it from
include/asm-ppc/device-ethernet.h to include/linux/device-ethernet.h to
make it more arch-independant. That covers MAC addrs and phy locations.

As for PHY IRQ, that's a thornier issue. For now, I put that in the
ethernet device's resource list.

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Jason McMullan [off-list ref]