Re: Interface change: Now or later?

From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.epfl.ch)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 08:57:42 EST

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Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> There are at least two workable ways to work around this limitation in your
> driver:

A third possibility: widen the phy_put/get interface (i.e. go from
unsigned char to u32) and treat exotic cases like registers with
variable width by assigning them different ("virtual") addresses.

That should keep the changes to existing code very small.

- Werner

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