[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 2/3] net: add phylib implementation

[Stefan Roese]

On Thursday 27 August 2009 03:55:57 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > +int phy_init(void)
> > +{
> > +	/* Initialize the list */
> > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&phy_drvs.list);
>
> does it really need to be dynamic ?  arent there static initializers so
> this can be done in .data ?

Using static initializers fails on PPC because of the somewhat broken 
relocation. So this dynamic implementation is the preferred version, at least 
for PPC people.

Cheers,
Stefan

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