Re: RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 18:27 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> I haven't had time to review the phy abstraction layer, but my gut 
> feeling is that there are several common code patterns which could be 
> abstracted out, to save code.
> 
> Typically there will be one or more phy-specific functions in each 
> 10/100 or GigE driver, falling back to a default 'genphy' driver when 
> things are completely MII/GMII-compatible.

Exactly. One thing for which i usually need PHY specific functions
(pretty much all the time) is PHY init (thanks Broadcom) and suspend.

Ben.