On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 20:10 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:

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IIRC, Ben had some issues with how phylib and the EMAC would need to
interact.  Not sure if he has those written down somewhere or not.
(CC'd).

Hmm, yeah, I'd be interested to see those.  There's enough similar
between phylib and the EMAC and sungem drivers that I'm considering a
series of somewhat-mechanical patches to make EMAC and sungem use the
"struct phy_device" and "struct mii_bus" from phylib, possibly
abstracting out some helper functions along the way.

Yup, emac and sungem predate phylib.

I had a quick look at what it would take to port at least emac over, the
main issue was that I want to be able to sleep (ie, take a mutex) in my
mdio read/write functions, and back then, phylib wouldn't let me do that
due to spinlock and timer/softirq usage.

Ben.