Re: RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2005-03-10 23:33:34
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On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 18:27 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I haven't had time to review the phy abstraction layer, but my gut feeling is that there are several common code patterns which could be abstracted out, to save code. Typically there will be one or more phy-specific functions in each 10/100 or GigE driver, falling back to a default 'genphy' driver when things are completely MII/GMII-compatible.
Exactly. One thing for which i usually need PHY specific functions (pretty much all the time) is PHY init (thanks Broadcom) and suspend. Ben.