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Re: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83848: Add TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY

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On 20/10/15 14:51, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> On 10/20/2015 04:37 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 20/10/15 14:28, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>>> Add support for the TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY device.
>>>
>>> The DP83848 is a highly reliable, feature rich, IEEE 802.3 compliant
>>> single port 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet Physical Layer Transceiver supporting
>>> the MII and RMII interfaces.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
>>
>> Just one comment below:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/Makefile b/drivers/net/phy/Makefile
>>> index 87f079c..b748224 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/Makefile
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/Makefile
>>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MDIO_BITBANG)    += mdio-bitbang.o
>>>   obj-$(CONFIG_MDIO_GPIO)        += mdio-gpio.o
>>>   obj-$(CONFIG_NATIONAL_PHY)    += national.o
>>>   obj-$(CONFIG_DP83640_PHY)    += dp83640.o
>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_DP83848_PHY)    += dp83848.o
>>>   obj-$(CONFIG_DP83867_PHY)    += dp83867.o
>>
>> This is a pretty small PHY driver, would it make sense to look into
>> consolidating these into e.g: dp838xx.c for instance? dp83640 is big
>> enough to be its own driver it seems.
>>
> 
> I was looking into that, but from the looks of it these drivers are small
> because only the functions that differentiate the PHYs need be defined.
> So there is very little common code between them.
> 
> I'm going to be brining up a couple more PHYs soon, so I'll keep this in
> mind
> and try to find any redundancy that can be merged when working on these.

Sounds good, thanks for giving some context on this.
-- 
Florian
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[PATCH] net: phy: dp83848: Add TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com> - 2015-10-20 23:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83848: Add TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 23:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83848: Add TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 00:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83848: Add TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com> - 2015-10-21 00:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83848: Add TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com> - 2015-10-21 02:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83848: Add TI DP83848 Ethernet PHY David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-10-22 15:30 +0200

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