The KS8851SNL/SNLI and KS8851-16MLL/MLLI/MLLU are very much the same pieces of silicon, except the former has an SPI interface, while the later has a parallel bus interface. Thus far, Linux has two separate drivers for each and they are diverging considerably.
This series unifies them into a single driver with small SPI and parallel bus specific parts. The approach here is to first separate out the SPI specific parts into a separate file, then add parallel bus accessors in another separate file and then finally remove the old parallel bus driver. The reason for replacing the old parallel bus driver is because the SPI bus driver is much higher quality. Marek Vasut (20): net: ks8851: Factor out spi->dev in probe()/remove() net: ks8851: Rename ndev to netdev in probe net: ks8851: Replace dev_err() with netdev_err() in IRQ handler net: ks8851: Pass device node into ks8851_init_mac() net: ks8851: Use devm_alloc_etherdev() net: ks8851: Use dev_{get,set}_drvdata() net: ks8851: Remove ks8851_rdreg32() net: ks8851: Use 16-bit writes to program MAC address net: ks8851: Use 16-bit read of RXFC register net: ks8851: Factor out bus lock handling net: ks8851: Factor out SKB receive function net: ks8851: Split out SPI specific entries in struct ks8851_net net: ks8851: Split out SPI specific code from probe() and remove() net: ks8851: Factor out TX work flush function net: ks8851: Permit overridding interrupt enable register net: ks8851: Implement register, FIFO, lock accessor callbacks net: ks8851: Separate SPI operations into separate file net: ks8851: Implement Parallel bus operations net: ks8851: Remove ks8851_mll.c net: ks8851: Drop define debug and pr_fmt() drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/Kconfig | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/Makefile | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851.h | 142 +- .../micrel/{ks8851.c => ks8851_common.c} | 698 ++------- drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c | 1393 ----------------- drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_par.c | 351 +++++ drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_spi.c | 481 ++++++ 7 files changed, 1116 insertions(+), 1953 deletions(-) rename drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/{ks8851.c => ks8851_common.c} (62%) delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_par.c create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_spi.c Cc: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Cc: Lukas Wunner <lu...@wunner.de> Cc: Petr Stetiar <yn...@true.cz> Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaib...@huawei.com> -- 2.25.1