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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83848: Add TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY
On 20/10/15 14:51, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> On 10/20/2015 04:37 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 20/10/15 14:28, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>>> Add support for the TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY device.
>>>
>>> The DP83848 is a highly reliable, feature rich, IEEE 802.3 compliant
>>> single port 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet Physical Layer Transceiver supporting
>>> the MII and RMII interfaces.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
>>
>> Just one comment below:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/Makefile b/drivers/net/phy/Makefile
>>> index 87f079c..b748224 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/Makefile
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/Makefile
>>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MDIO_BITBANG) += mdio-bitbang.o
>>> obj-$(CONFIG_MDIO_GPIO) += mdio-gpio.o
>>> obj-$(CONFIG_NATIONAL_PHY) += national.o
>>> obj-$(CONFIG_DP83640_PHY) += dp83640.o
>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_DP83848_PHY) += dp83848.o
>>> obj-$(CONFIG_DP83867_PHY) += dp83867.o
>>
>> This is a pretty small PHY driver, would it make sense to look into
>> consolidating these into e.g: dp838xx.c for instance? dp83640 is big
>> enough to be its own driver it seems.
>>
>
> I was looking into that, but from the looks of it these drivers are small
> because only the functions that differentiate the PHYs need be defined.
> So there is very little common code between them.
>
> I'm going to be brining up a couple more PHYs soon, so I'll keep this in
> mind
> and try to find any redundancy that can be merged when working on these.

Sounds good, thanks for giving some context on this.
--
Florian


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