sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:
> On (05/22/09 20:48), Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> I've posted a webrev of my MII work here:
>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gdamore/mii/
>>
>
> cool stuff! I like that it shrinks the setprop of many of the drivers.
>
For many drivers, it *eliminates* the entire setprop, except of course
the call to the mii_m_setprop() itself. :-)
>> This is fully functional -- at least it appears to be with the devices
>> I've tested -- afe, iprb, nxge. I've also converted elxl, but it turns
>>
>
> did you mean nge?
>
Yes. I'll probably rtls, dmfe, and maybe hme, as well. (hme is the
most work, but it would remove a *lot* of code from the hme driver. And
I'm pretty sure it will fix at least one bug.)
> It might be useful to put together a rough sketch of the interfaces
> to help both review as well as to help driver-authors..
>
I sent out a PSARC fasttrack (2009/319), but I don't have a diagram
drawn. I suck at pictures.
- Garrett
> --Sowmini
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