[PATCH 4/8] macb: initial support for Cadence GEM

Jamie Iles jamie at jamieiles.com
Fri Mar 11 08:30:16 EST 2011


On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 02:14:15PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 10:10 Thu 10 Mar     , Jamie Iles wrote:
> > The Cadence GEM is based on the MACB Ethernet controller but has a few
> > small changes with regards to register and bitfield placement.  This
> > patch adds a new platform driver for gem which sets allows the driver to
> > tell at runtime whether it is targetting a GEM device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie at jamieiles.com>
> could we avoid all this if else everywhere?

I can't really see any other way to do this, but you're right it isn't 
particularly nice.  Having said that, it is only in the initialization 
code so there shouldn't be any real performance impact.

I'm open to ideas though!

Jamie



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