On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 15:07 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi Andy ! > > I've been looking at porting various drivers (EMAC, sungem, > spider_net, ...) to the generic PHY stuff. However, I have one > significant problem here. >
> One solution would be to change it to use a mutex instead of a lock as > well, though that would change the requirements of where phy_start/stop > can be called, and use a delayed work queue instead of a timer. Wouldn't this change also allow it to be used with USB Ethernet devices? I was looking at porting the asix.c drive to use the PHY layer but the locking killed that effort since USB devices can't do spinlocks without hosing things up. -- David Hollis <[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
