RE: [HACK] SMC91111

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Timothy Legge wrote:
> I scanned the mailing list because I was really hoping that this was the
> first time that this driver was reported to work post 5.2 and you patch
> would have been easy to verify.  Unfortunately 5.3.9 worked for someone
> else a while back so I will have to do a more indepth review.  A quick
> scan did not cause me any concern but sisne I don't have one of the
> older supported NICs either I cannot test it.
> 
> Thanks for your work on the driver, I will try to do a review this
> weekend.  I don't see any issue with adding it to 5.4 and 5.5 at the
> same time.

For what it's worth, the build system for 5.5 would now allow the MII 
functionality to be placed in a separate file, e.g. drivers/net/mii.c, 
where it could be used from any driver with an MII.  This is the way that 
Linux does it.

I'm unlikely to get round to doing this in the near future, but it would 
make a good mini-project for someone wanting to get involved.

Michael



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