On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:26:58PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:15:23PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > Is it necessary to maintain special cases for the single-PHY > > configurations? What would be the effect of folding the single-PHY > > situation into the multi-PHY handling code? > > well, it was just my choice of using the so far working solution for > single phys, which is the common board setup. The single phy solution > uses the hardware capabilities of the chip, so it saves a few cyles... Thats understandable... > It's probably just a matter of switching to software based phy polling, > fix bugs and be done with it. OK, so where does that leave us? Will you be doing such a patch? Should we wait for it? Or should this patch be applied in the mean time? How many multi-PHY cards are out there? Do they function acceptably w/ the current driver? Or do they need a patch like this just to operate? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
