Re: bitrot in drivers/net/au1000_eth.c

[Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>]

> I suggest everyone take a look at the effort posted to netdev:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2004-12/msg00643.html
That's the work Dan told me about. Now we just have to update the 
au1x driver :)
Pete


> It's an attempt at a phy abstraction layer that goes the next
> logical step after the minimal support provided in mii.h.
>
> It's evolved out of the in-driver abstraction that is currently
> used in the sungem, ibm_emac, and gianfar drivers in 2.6. It
> was just a matter of time before somebody got tired of copying
> the same PHY mgmt bits into every driver. :)
>
> -Matt