From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schmitz Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Amiga PCMCIA 100 MBit card support Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:41:36 +1300 Message-ID: <201e7069-a8c3-191f-501a-44fc6c46ae94@gmail.com> References: <20181219222427.GA78871@MacBook.fritz.box> <20181220.161053.1268735869147094096.davem@davemloft.net> <2a960bfa-000a-eb14-814b-476da5c1f5df@gmail.com> <20181228.124330.1798799446491889384.davem@davemloft.net> <6b725e37-4223-cef8-5430-aa05ddafb551@gmail.com> <20181231104725.GA3239@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181231104725.GA3239@lunn.ch> Content-Language: en-US Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Lunn Cc: David Miller , alex@kazik.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, rolf.anders@physik.uni-augsburg.de List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, On 31/12/18 11:47 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: >>> Having so many front end drivers for a chipset should be done in a >>> more modular manner, so that in fact they could all coexist if >>> necessary. >> Not sure I follow your meaning ... are you suggesting to allow the back end >> driver to use run-time selectable IO accessors and other generic helper >> functions, so the drivers currenlty including lib8390.c directly could use >> the core code from the 8390 module instead? > Yes, David is suggesting you abstract the code so it can be built once > to support all the different interfaces and architectures. Thanks for clarifying - I'll see what I can come up with. I can only test on ne.c and xsurf100.c though. Cheers,     Michael > Andrew