Merge branch 'at91'
Joachim Eastwood says;
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This patch series prepares the old at91_ether driver for code sharing
with the macb driver. The hardware is similar except for DMA TX/RX, so
its not quite clear if it is practical to support both in one
driver. But stuff like MDIO and statistics should be possible to
share.
Patch 1 adds some register defines and bits that is only found on
RM9200.
Patch 2-4 uses the register defines and access functions from the macb
header. These can be squashed if it cause too much churn.
Patch 5 merges the private at91_ether struct with the private macb
struct. This makes it easier to later share code with the macb. The
private macb struct becomes quite large, but most at91_ether specific
members are removed in later patches.
Patch 8 make macb compile when we select at91_ether. Is this approach
okey?
Patch 9 makes use of MDIO code from macb. This rips out the private
phy handling code in at91_ether. One thing that is lost is the
interrupt support for phy. But this should easy to add to macb which
will then benefit both drivers.
Patch 10 makes use of the macb_set_rx_mode from macb.
Patch 11-12 makes at91_ether share the rx dma struct members from
macb. Patch also moves the rx buffer allocation into netdev open and
dealloc into netdev close.
Last patch remove the now unused rm9200 emac header from include/mach.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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