Re: [PATCH, resend] pch_phub: re-use native MAC address parser

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 June 2013 17:21:16 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
>> > The easiest solution would be to
>> > make the entire driver "depend on NET".
>>
>> I don't feel that is good idea. Driver is an abstraction to the ROM,
>> it doesn't mean you can't read ROM without network framework.
>
> Right, makes sense.
>
>> It seems proper solution is to move mac_pton() outside of CONFIG_NET,
>> though I don't know how to do this easily.
>
> If we want to use it outside of CONFIG_NET, it cannot be part of net/core/*.c.
> Maybe we can move the function to lib/mac_pton.c instead and create a
> Kconfig symbol that gets selected by CONFIG_NET and by any driver lib
> PCH_PHUB that needs it.

Sounds like a solution. Would you like me to implement this?


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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