Re: [PATCH 4/8] macb: initial support for Cadence GEM

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 02:14:15PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:

On 10:10 Thu 10 Mar     , Jamie Iles wrote:

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The Cadence GEM is based on the MACB Ethernet controller but has a few
small changes with regards to register and bitfield placement.  This
patch adds a new platform driver for gem which sets allows the driver to
tell at runtime whether it is targetting a GEM device.

Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <redacted>

could we avoid all this if else everywhere?

I can't really see any other way to do this, but you're right it isn't 
particularly nice.  Having said that, it is only in the initialization 
code so there shouldn't be any real performance impact.

I'm open to ideas though!

Jamie