[U-Boot] [PATCH] miiphy: Note that miiphy_* API is deprecated

Andy Fleming afleming at freescale.com
Mon Oct 31 16:12:12 CET 2011


On Oct 31, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Andy Fleming <afleming at freescale.com> wrote:
>> We want to move everything to phylib, and we definitely don't want
>> new drivers using the miiphy infrastructure.
> 
> How about using gcc's deprecated function feature?  Or is that too aggressive?


I don't think we want every net driver prior to the last release to create a warning. We may switch to that after we get some momentum on switching drivers over. The first goal is just to provide information that a new driver-writer may see so that the old API doesn't expand.

Andy


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