[U-Boot] mii_phy.h

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Aug 25 16:20:49 CEST 2011


On Thursday, August 25, 2011 03:25:32 Michal Simek wrote:
> Can someone clear me purpose of mii_phy.h? It looks like that it is really
> ancient file which hasn't been touched from 2003.
> 
> It is use for two files
> [monstr at monstr u-boot]$ grep -rn "mii_phy.h" *
> board/ep8260/mii_phy.c:2:#include <mii_phy.h>
> board/rpxsuper/mii_phy.c:2:#include <mii_phy.h>

yes, if you look at old files, you often see people using generic names when 
they should have been driver or arch specific, or people who thought about 
starting a framework but then nothing ever materialized.

> The best will be to remove mii_phy entirely.

sounds good to me ... i imagine the existing functionality might need to be 
converted into one of the common net frameworks that has been adopted ?
-mike
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