Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752672AbcDZQ0b (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:26:31 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:40078 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752562AbcDZQ01 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:26:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:26:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20160426.122624.967268334782802268.davem@davemloft.net> To: andrew@lunn.ch Cc: pramod.kumar@broadcom.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, yamada.masahiro@socionext.com, wens@csie.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, arnd@arndb.de, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, punit.agrawal@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, anup.patel@broadcom.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] bus: Add shared MDIO bus framework From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20160426121335.GC11668@lunn.ch> References: <20160425205650.GA31129@lunn.ch> <666dffb41a922b0c8638f2f002a2de08@mail.gmail.com> <20160426121335.GC11668@lunn.ch> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.6 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 470 Lines: 12 From: Andrew Lunn Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:13:35 +0200 > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:03:27PM +0530, Pramod Kumar wrote: >> As you can see from above points, trying to re-use Linux Ethernet MDIO mux >> framework for non-Ethernet PHYs is not the right way. > > And as i pointed out, all your arguments are wrong, bar one. And i > doubt that one argument is sufficient to duplicate a lot of code which > already exists and does 95% of what you need. +1