Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:41:29 -0800 | From | thockin@hockin ... | Subject | Re: [patch 1/4] natsemi: Add support for using MII port with no PHY |
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:23:31PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:41:13PM -0800, thockin@hockin.org wrote: > > > Not that my opinion should hold much weight, having been absent from the > > driver for some time, but yuck. Is there no better way to do this thatn > > sprinkling poo all over it? > > The changes are mostly isolated into check_link(), the fact that half > the function gets placed inside a conditional but diff sees it as a > bunch of smaller changes makes the changes look a lot more invasive than > they actually are. I guess that could be helped by splitting the PHY > access code out of check_link() into check_phy_status() or something but > I'm not sure how much that really helps.
It's not terribly offensive it just seems like a hack. :) I'm not sure I really understand the reasoning, so I can't offer anythign better or more general purpose. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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