On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:16 AM, James Hartley <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Andrew Bresticker
>> Sent: 06 April 2015 23:28
>> To: Arnd Bergmann; James Hartley
>> Cc: David S. Miller; Giuseppe Cavallaro; [email protected];
>> [email protected]; [email protected]; Govindraj Raja
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] stmmac: Add IMG Pistachio platform glue layer
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Monday 06 April 2015 14:42:38 Andrew Bresticker wrote:
>> >> At the moment, the only additional setup required for the DWMAC on
>> >> the IMG Pistachio SoC is to request and enable a separate gate clock
>> >> for the register interface.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <[email protected]>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Govindraj Raja <[email protected]>
>> >> Cc: James Hartley <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > Why do you need a special glue driver for that?
>> >
>> > Since you don't do anything special, I'd say it should be possible to
>> > handle this with just the default driver.
>>
>> Right, at the moment we only need to request and enable a second clock,
>> which could be added to the core driver.  If we don't expect to have to
>> extend this driver to deal with other configurations (which IIRC there were
>> some concerns about when I wrote this), then I'm fine with folding this 
>> change
>> into the core driver - James?
>
> Weren't the concerns about USB not Ethernet?  I don't remember anything that
> would stop us extending the driver for eth.

OK, let's try this then: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6174881/

-Andrew
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