Re: drivers/net/mii.c

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:02:27PM +0100, Michael Brown wrote:
> 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.

Murphy says that the person willing to do that,
is at _this_ moment not on this mailinglist.
(he/she is busy elsewhere)

Please put it somewhere on the website in the TODO file,
so that it wouldn't get lost in the archives.


Cheers
Geert Stappers



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